STATE FOLIO — WA · VERIFIED 2026-11-04

Washington

Deadlines, agent rules, and the cost of a miss — kept by Washington Secretary of State, Corporations and Charities Filing System, checked against the state’s own publications on 2026-11-04. If a figure here ever disagrees with the state’s page, the state’s page governs and our re-verification queue takes the correction the same week.

Verified 2026-11-04 Full mail mirroring available

The formation rule

By the expiration date, which is the last day of the month in which the business was first formed/registered; may be filed up to 180 days before the expiration date

Late charge (LLC)

$25 late charge (LLC)

File number, as the state issues it

UBI number, 9 digits (###-###-###) — Secretary of State

The Washington deadline ledger

Recurring obligations by entity type — sample LLC formed March 15, 2024 for the dated lines

LLC — Annual Report

Open

Due March 31, 2027 · 145 days · Fee $70 · Exposure $95

Corporation — Annual Report

Open

Due March 31, 2027 · 145 days · Fee $70 · Exposure $95

Open exposure if every line were missed: $190 in state charges alone.

Limited liability company late note: $25 delinquency fee if the annual report is received past the expiration date (SOS Annual Report instructions, Rev. 6.2025)

Corporation (for-profit) late note: $25 delinquency fee if the annual report is received past the expiration date (SOS Annual Report instructions, Rev. 6.2025)

First report: First annual report due by the expiration date (last day of the formation/registration month) in the year after formation/registration

Your exact dates depend on your formation date. Run the Entity Checkup and the ledger becomes yours — dated, with the late charges attached to the right cycles.

The Washington brief

Washington’s lesson is fee drift. The current Secretary of State annual report form (revised June 2025) sets the fee at $70 for profit entities; the $60 figure still quoted across the internet comes from the superseded form. The report is due by the expiration date — the last day of your formation month — and Washington opens the window a full 180 days early, the widest early window in this wave. Past the date, a $25 delinquency fee attaches and administrative dissolution enters the picture. File early, from the current form, at the current price: Washington rewards exactly that.

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The registered agent in Washington

All businesses must have a registered agent in Washington per RCW 23.95.415; agent must sign consent to serve, noncommercial agent must provide a Washington physical street address (no PO Box/PMB), commercial agent must be registered with the SOS

The agent of record for every entity we serve is Registered Agents Inc, engaged through PNR Wholesale Services LLC — named before purchase, in the agreement, and here. We do not resell an unnamed network.

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What a miss costs in Washington

Failure to file by the expiration date may result in administrative dissolution (SOS annual report form)

The Dissolution Clock — Washington

The state’s own sequence, from the verified record: Failure to file by the expiration date may result in administrative dissolution (SOS annual report form)

Last day of the formation monthThe annual report ($70) falls due — the expiration date. The window opens a full 180 days early.
Received after the expiration dateA $25 delinquency fee attaches.
On continued non-filingAdministrative dissolution enters the picture.
On reinstatementFile the delinquent reports and pay the fees and delinquency charges on the record.

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Mail in Washington

Full mail mirroring is available in Washington. Service of process and official state mail are scanned to your portal, typically within 24 hours; ordinary business mail sent to your registered office address is mirrored on the same terms, under your mail plan. The physical originals stay on file; a service-of-process item also triggers a phone escalation until you acknowledge it.

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Switching your Washington agent to us

The switch is a relay, not a leap: the new agent is in place before the old one is released, and the change is proven on the state record — never assumed from a submitted form.

Successor filed

The new agent designation goes to the state first. State fee for this folio: $0, at cost.

Read-back

The state record is read back. It must show the new agent before anything else moves.

Release

Only then is the old agent released. ~~Release first, file second~~ — that order leaves the entity with no agent, and it is never run. The shaded node is the no-agent-gap window the relay exists to close.

Instrument: Statement of Change/Designation of Registered Agent, filed with the Secretary of State (RCW 23.95.415). State fee: $0. No state fee: the Secretary of State’s Statement of Change form instructions (revised June 2025) state there is no filing fee to update or change the registered agent, read 2026-11-05. Expedited handling, if requested, adds $100.

How the no-gap switch works, state by state

Washington questions, answered from the record

How much is the Washington annual report?

$70 for profit corporations and LLCs, per the Secretary of State’s current annual report form (revised June 2025). The $60 figure on older pages and forms is outdated.

When is the Washington annual report due?

By the expiration date — the last day of the month in which the business was formed or registered. It may be filed up to 180 days before that date.

What happens if the Washington annual report is late?

A $25 delinquency fee applies when the report is received past the expiration date, and failure to file may result in administrative dissolution.

Is the Secretary of State annual report the same as the business license renewal?

No. Washington’s business license renewal runs through the Department of Revenue — a separate system from the Secretary of State’s annual report. Both exist; confusing them is how one gets missed.

Sources: Official state source (see dataset record). Verification basis: per-state compliance dataset v1, primary-source verified 2026-11-04.

The rate card, and the order we open in

The Agent On File — agent, calendar, mail vault$149per entity, per year · renews at $149

Bundled — the annual filing included$199per entity, per year · renews at $199

Filing add-on — one cycle, prepared and filed$129added to the base plan, per use

Launch pricing, published before enrollment opens. State filing fees pass through at cost and are shown before anything is filed. The reminder tier — one entity’s ledger, watched and reminded — is free.

Enrollment is not open today. It opens when our wholesale fulfillment agreement is executed and a first test order has been completed and proven on the record. The founding list for Washington hears first — by state, in order. Questions before joining: write to the desk.