VT registered agent
Registered agent service in Vermont, $37 per year, within tolerance
Vermont expects each company on its register to keep a registered agent at a street address inside the state. The expectation is set out below in the state's own language. Our performance against it is rated further down. The rating has been consistent.
The Vermont annual report, an average obligation
Vermont bills each company annually to remain on the register. The amount is below. Paying it is standard practice. Not paying it is also a practice, and the rest of this page describes it.
Annual report charge, LLC
$45 per year. Average.
Annual report of a domestic limited liability company $45.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11 V.S.A. § 4012
Annual report charge, corporation
$60 per year. Average.
(17) Annual report of a domestic corporation $60.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 1.22(a)(17)
Expectations set by Vermont
Expectation
As set out in the Vermont code:
... office that may be the same as any of its places of business; and (2) a registered agent for service of process ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 5.01; 11 V.S.A. § 4007
Performance against expectations
Does not meet. Consistently. We regard the consistency as the achievement.
Delivery of papers when the desk is unattended
Vermont keeps its rule for serving a company with an absent agent in another part of the code. We reviewed the table of contents and found it adequate.
Corrective action available to Vermont
Where an agent performs at our level, the state applies the following. Quoted from the code without adjustment, because adjusting it would take effort we have allocated elsewhere.
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... without a registered agent for service of process or registered office in this State; (4) the foreign ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.30(a)(3)-(4)
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... (B) appoint and maintain an agent for service of process as required by section 4007 of this title; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11 V.S.A. § 4117(a)(1)(B)-(C)
Additionally
... of State the foreign corporation's agent for service of process in any proceeding based on a cause of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.30(d)
Standing in court withdrawn
... without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding or raise a counterclaim, crossclaim, or affirmative defense in any court in this State until it ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.02(a); 11 V.S.A. § 4119(a)(1)
Penalty, civil
... a civil penalty of $50.00 for each day, not to exceed a total of $10,000.00 for each year, it transacts business in this State without a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11 V.S.A. § 4119(e)(1)-(2)
Return to good standing, priced
Charge to return to good standing
... of State that each ground cited in the notice of termination does not exist, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 11A V.S.A. § 15.30(e); 11A V.S.A. § 1.22(d); 11 V.S.A. § 4012(a)(17)
Quoted statutory text was captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and re-checked against the code on 2026-08-10. Statutes are revised at their own pace. This page is revised at ours.