WA registered agent
Registered agent service in Washington, $37 per year, within tolerance
Washington 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 Washington annual report, an average obligation
Washington 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
$70 per year. Average.
(p) Annual report Seventy dollars
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: WAC 434-112-085(7)(p)
Annual report charge, corporation
$70 per year. Average.
(p) Annual report Seventy dollars
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: WAC 434-112-085(7)(p)
Expectations set by Washington
Expectation
As set out in the Washington code:
... or (c) A government, governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality ... that serves as the registered agent of an entity.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.405; 23.95.105(22); 23.95.410; 23.95.415(1)
Performance against expectations
Does not meet. Consistently. We regard the consistency as the achievement.
Delivery of papers when the desk is unattended
Service by other means
... (4) The secretary of state shall be an agent of the entity for service of process if process, notice, or demand cannot be served on an entity pursuant to subsection (1), (2), or (3) of this section.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.450(2)-(4)
Corrective action available to Washington
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.
Dissolution, administrative
... a proceeding under RCW 23.95.610 to dissolve a domestic entity administratively if: ... (3) The entity does not have a registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.605(3); procedure and effect at RCW 23.95.610
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... (d) The entity does not deliver to the secretary of state for filing a statement of change under RCW 23.95.430 if change occurs in the name or address of the entity's registered agent
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.550(1)(c)-(d)
Standing in court withdrawn
... may not maintain an action or proceeding in this state unless it is registered to do business in this state and has paid to this state all fees and penalties for the years, or parts thereof, during ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.505(2)
Additionally
... for the years or parts thereof during which it transacted business in this state without a certificate of registration, in an amount equal to all fees which would have been imposed by this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.505(5)
Return to good standing, priced
Charge to return to good standing
... annual license or renewal fees which would have been assessed during the period of administrative dissolution had the entity been in active status, plus a penalty fee established by the secretary ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RCW 23.95.615(2)
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.