Vermont Registered Agent

The cost of a registered agent in Vermont depends on the service you use or if you decide to do it yourself. If you do it yourself, it’s absolutely free except you risk your privacy and private information. At Northwest, our Vermont Registered Agent Service only costs $125 and has always cost that. No hidden or surprise fees.

Yes, you can be your own registered agent in Vermont. However, after considering the registered agent requirements most business owners elect to hire a registered agent service instead. Why? Well although being your own registered agent will cost you $0 upfront, a Vermont registered agent’s name and address becomes part of the public record.

Additionally, the registered agent is required to be available to accept service of process during normal business hours five days a week.

We accept and scan all of our Vermont clients’ documents on-site at our registered office in Shelburne, VT.

Definitely! We’re the only national registered agent service that allows our clients to list our address for everything when you’re doing a filing to keep your private address off public records.

We don’t want ALL of your business mail. It’s not what we do. And it wouldn’t serve you well. You wouldn’t have a unique address or suite number. Any mail we receive on your behalf would come to Northwest Registered Agent, care of you.

But we understand that businesses and clients sometimes reach out to you through your registered agent. Through us. That’s why we give you five FREE scans of regular business mail a year. You can request any additional documents to be forwarded at a per document rate of $15.

Sign up for registered agent service first and then do your business registration filing with the Secretary of State. The state won’t allow you to form an LLC or corporation without a registered agent. Plus, with Northwest you’ll get all the forms and instructions you need to complete your filing instantly after you sign up.

Service on your registered agent is legal proof that you were notified. Regardless of whether you actually receive the documents your Vermont registered agent signs for, once they accept the documents, you’ve been notified. This is a serious responsibility that we do not take lightly. This is how it works:

• A process server, the county sheriff, or any third party will walk into our office and hand us the documents (service of process), which we sign for.
• The process server then gives an affidavit (a receipt of service) to the court as confirmation that they served us.

Note: If you’ve hired Northwest, you’ve received your documents long before the process server hands in their affidavit to the court—because we scanned them to your online account within minutes of having been served.

To find a company’s registered agent, you can do a Vermont business name search on the state’s website:

• Type in the company name you are trying to look up.
• Look at the VT registered agent name and registered office street address.

NOTE: If you want to legally notify someone through their Vermont registered agent service, just send a certified letter directly to the registered agent name and registered office address.

In Vermont, to resign as a registered agent, you need to submit a Statement of Resignation of Registered Agent to the Vermont SOS. For a more detailed walkthrough, you can refer to our guide on how to resign as a registered agent in Vermont.