WV registered agent
Registered agent service in West Virginia, $37 per year, within tolerance
West Virginia 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 West Virginia annual report, an average obligation
West Virginia 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
$25 per year. Average.
... report fee of $25 for the services of the Secretary of ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://code.wvlegislature.gov/59-1-2A/
Annual report charge, corporation
$25 per year. Average.
... partnership, domestic limited liability company, and foreign limited liability company ... shall ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://code.wvlegislature.gov/59-1-2A/
Expectations set by West Virginia
Expectation
As set out in the West Virginia code:
... and (2) A registered agent, who may be: (A) An individual who resides in this state and whose business office is identical with the registered office; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-5-501; § 31B-1-108(a)-(b)
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
... fails to appoint or maintain an agent for service of process in this state or the agent for service of process cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the agent's address, the Secretary ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31B-1-111(b); see also § 31D-5-504(b)-(c)
Corrective action available to West Virginia
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
... the Secretary of State within 60 days that its registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-14-1420(a)(2)
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... one thousand five hundred eight or one thousand five hundred nine of this article that its registered agent or registered office has changed, that its registered agent has resigned or that ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-15-1530(2)
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... to: ... (iii) File a statement of a change in the name or business address of the agent ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31B-10-1006(a)(1)(iii)
Standing in court withdrawn
... business in this state without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any circuit court in this state ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-15-1502(a)
Additionally
... The application must: ... (4) Contain a certificate from the Tax Commissioner reciting that all taxes owed by the corporation have been paid.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W. Va. Code § 31D-14-1422(a)
Return to good standing, priced
incFACTS carries no verified figure for returning a West Virginia company to good standing at present. We have not requested one. A request would be above average.
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.