Every Other Line in a South Dakota Compliance Budget Is Printed in Advance. One Is Not.

Before the argument, the conflict: SD Registered Agent.org wrote this page, sells a competing South Dakota agent service, and gets paid when the comparison persuades somebody. The Inc Authority facts below are limited to what the company itself publishes, and the shape of this page is determined by how little that turns out to be.

The Free Year Is Not a Trick

Purchase formation work from Inc Authority and the agent seat rides along at no charge for a full twelve months. That is exactly what it says. It shows up precisely when a new venture's bank balance is thinnest and its obligation list is longest, and calling it bait would be unfair to an offer that delivers what it advertises.

We are not going to spend paragraphs attacking a free year. The subject of this page is the year after it.

Where the Renewal Figure Should Be

Our July 2026 check treated this as a question with a yes-or-no answer: is the renewal rate for Inc Authority registered agent service printed anywhere a shopper can reach without surrendering a phone number?

The answer was no. The package descriptions explain in detail what the free term contains and stop at its edge. The help material covers how the included service works without stating what continuing it costs. The company's main marketing pages sell the zero and go no further. Nothing publicly reachable named a second-year figure.

Which is where we stop. We are not going to estimate it, describe it as high, or infer a range from what other vendors charge, because an unpublished number is genuinely unknown and manufacturing evidence about a competitor would make every other claim on this site worth less. What we will say is that a price revealed at checkout or over the phone is a price revealed after you have already made the decision it should have informed.

The Rest of the Budget, Every Line of It Printed

The contrast is sharper in South Dakota than it would be in most states, because South Dakota publishes everything.

You can build a complete annual compliance budget for a South Dakota LLC before you spend a dollar. Organizing the company costs $150 filed online, $165 on paper, and $200 where the articles authorize series. The annual report is $55 online or $70 by mail, due during the month your entity was originally filed, with $50 added if it goes in late. Moving your registered agent to somebody else costs $10 electronically or $25 through the post. There is no state income tax and no corporate income tax to model around.

Every one of those amounts is on a government page you can read this afternoon without giving anyone your name. Against that background, a compliance line item whose price surfaces only when you ask for it stands out more than it otherwise might.

Moving the Appointment Away From Inc Authority

One filing handles it: a statement of change routed to the Secretary of State, ten dollars filed electronically or twenty five through the mail, with no form number to hunt for because this state does not number its business documents. Our change of agent page has the fields, the steps, and the record check afterward.

The scheduling advice attached to it is short. Line the new agent up while the old appointment is still live. South Dakota wants that field filled on every day of your entity's existence, and a company that cancels before filing has manufactured a window in which nobody is officially authorized to accept a summons on its behalf. Process servers do not check whether your timing was convenient.

Our Whole Price List

That is the entire list. There is nothing beneath it that appears later, and no tier above it that a salesperson will describe once you are on the phone. Papers served on our office are scanned that working day and pushed to you electronically, and the reminder before your report month arrives comes with the service rather than as an add-on.

Our $99 belongs in a sentence with a caveat attached: BetterLegal's published $90 undercuts it, so treat $99 as among the lower rates rather than the lowest one.

If the free Inc Authority year is running down, insist on seeing the second-year figure in writing before anyone charges a card. Then hold it up beside a rate that has been sitting in public on this page since its first line.

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