Vermont Changed Its Report Fee and Printed the New One. Inc Authority Has Never Printed a Renewal.

We should say what we are before we say anything about anyone else. VT Registered Agent.org sells Vermont registered agent service for $99 a year. That makes Inc Authority a competitor and this page a piece of advocacy. The one thing we will not do in the course of it is invent a number on their behalf, and the reason why is most of what follows.

The Free Year Is Real

The registered agent line comes free inside Inc Authority's formation packages for a full twelve months. That is not a trick, it works as advertised, and it lands at the point in a Vermont company's life when there is the least room for one more subscription. Anybody forming through them and taking the included year is getting something for nothing, which is exactly as good as it sounds.

Our objection begins where the twelve months end.

Vermont Publishes Its Numbers, Including the Ones That Change

Consider how the state behaves, because it sets a useful standard.

Vermont's Secretary of State keeps a public fee schedule, and the fees themselves are fixed by statute at 11 V.S.A. § 4012. The annual report for a domestic limited liability company costs $45 there. It has not always been $45. The earlier figure was $35, and a great many third-party guides still print the old amount because nobody went back to correct them.

Notice what the state did anyway. It raised a price, wrote the new price down in a place anyone can read without buying anything, and left the schedule up. The change is inconvenient for the state's reputation and helpful to the person budgeting. Publication is what makes a raised fee tolerable: you can plan around a number that went up, and you cannot plan around a number nobody will state.

That is the whole comparison on this page, and Vermont supplies the better half of it.

Reading Inc Authority the Way You Would Read a Fee Schedule

In July 2026 we went through Inc Authority's public material with one question, the same question a fee schedule is designed to answer: what does year two cost?

The promotional pages give the free year. The package comparisons give the free year. The answers-to-questions material gives the free year. Nowhere in anything a person can read before an order is underway does a second-year figure for standalone agent service appear. A blank like that normally resolves at the checkout screen, or during a phone call with somebody on a sales team.

We are stopping there. No estimate, no range extrapolated from what competitors charge, no adjective doing the work of a figure. Printing a number we have never seen would devalue every number we do print. And the grievance is not cost, since cost is precisely the thing we cannot determine. The grievance is that a state willing to post a raised fee on an open schedule is meeting a standard the vendor has not met.

For symmetry on our own line: a $90 rate exists in this market, published by BetterLegal, and it is under ours. So $99 is one of the lowest published Vermont prices rather than the lowest, and we would rather write that than let the page imply otherwise.

The $99, Itemized

• Our Vermont street address on the agent line of the public record instead of yours
• Same-day imaging of service of process, in the portal and in your email before the day ends
• The complete document history for your company, kept and searchable
• Alerts ahead of the Vermont report window, with the current $45 figure rather than the retired one
• Routine non-legal mail scanned at $15 per item, stated here rather than later
• $99 to start and $99 at every renewal, with no year-two blank anywhere in it

Replacing Inc Authority on the Vermont Agent Line

In one sentence: a $35 Statement of Change, submitted through the state's own filing site to the Business Services Division, unnumbered because Vermont prints no paper edition of it. The change of agent page covers each field, and we supply signed-up customers with the exact wording.

One Vermont timing rule is worth carrying with you, especially if your free year is winding down. Resignation costs a Vermont agent nothing and lands on the 31st day counted from the office's receipt of it, which means a departure can already be in motion before you have heard about it. File your own change while there is still a name on the line, confirm it in the state's records, and let the old arrangement end afterward. Get the year-two figure in writing first if you are considering staying. Ours has been legible since the top of this page.

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