Northwest Registered Agent Service is a Maryland registered agent specialist. You will find more answers on this page, than you will ever get if you call the Maryland
SDAT. That is if they will pick up the phone.
Maryland's Secretary of State is called the State Department of Assessments and Taxation. SDAT for short. We provide Maryland registered agent service for $125.00 a year. We can also help you make a filing with the Maryland SDAT Corporate Charter Division. The SDAT Corporate Charter Division is very busy and rarely even picks up the phone, so this page should help answer some of your questions. We provide pre-signed forms in your online account immediately accepting the appointment as your Maryland regitered agent.
INFO ON HOW TO INCORPORATE IN MARYLAND, OR REGISTER YOUR OUT OF STATE BUSINESS:
If you are going to make a filing with the Maryland SDAT, it will take 7-8 weeks for normal processing time. You can expedite the process by paying $50.00 and they will file it within 7 days. You can mail your filings in, or you can fax file your filing. If you fax file, you have to pay the $50.00 expedite fee. Filings do not need an original inked signature.
Make sure to send in your filing in duplicate, even if you fax file.
You will receive a confirmation letter to the address you list as your mailing address. You can pay an extra $5.00 to have the original filing returned to you with the confirmation letter. It is quicker to just look your business name up on their on-line database system. When paying the $5.00, that still won't get the actual filing back to you soon. They will not process that quickly.
Annual reports get mailed to your principal address in January or February of every year, and are due on April 15th. All annual reports cost $300.00. The Maryland annual reports are more like a personal property tax return. They are by far the worst report that any state has. Basically, they just want your money and most people fall in the minimum payment category.
Certificates of good standing cost $20.00 and can be ordered online.
To change your Maryland Registered Agent, it costs $25.00. You file a change of Maryland resident agent form, which is pre-signed and in your online account immediately after you sign up for service.
Basically, Maryland is the one of the worst states to run a business in. We operate in all 51 jurisdictions, and it's still amazing to us how bad Maryland actually is. For some reason, Maryland uses different terminology than the rest of America, they don't answer their phones, getting your company registered is painful. They won't even return a copy of the filing to you! There is no real good information on Maryland state agency Websites, and they don't answer their phones. Walking a filing over the counter does not get it processed any quicker. It's almost like they have weekly meetings to make things as hard on you as possible. We strongly recommend faxing your filing in, paying the extra 50.00 to exdepite and faxing in your questions at the same time. They will fax back to you.
If you've read through this, you'll know you've just found more info on Maryland than you have OR would find after searching the Maryland Websites for hours. We provide helpful information about Maryland immediately in your online account.You can sign up for immediate Maryland resident agent service and utilize the information that we have pried out of the state.
If you have any questions about making any type of filings in Maryland, you can give us a call, and/or hire us to make the filing for you, so it's done right the first time. You don't want to wait 8 weeks for something to get denied.
Thanks for the opportunity to provide you Maryland Registered Agent Service.
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