A Free First Year, and a Second Year Nobody Will Quote You

The company writing this competes with the company being examined. Louisiana Registered Agent.co charges $99 per year for registered agent service in this state and would benefit from your custom. Since our entire argument rests on the superiority of a disclosed price over an undisclosed one, inventing a figure to attribute to Inc Authority would defeat the argument. No such figure appears below.

The First Year at Zero Is Exactly That

Purchase formation from Inc Authority and the agent appointment carries no charge across the opening twelve months. We examined that offer with the skepticism of a rival and found it intact: no setup charge, no term shorter than advertised, no compensating increase we could identify in an adjacent line item.

For a newly organized Louisiana company, a statutory obligation covered for a year without payment is a real benefit at the point in a company's life when cash is scarcest. We are content to say so.

The Second Year Has No Published Figure

Beyond the free term, the record is empty.

A review conducted in July 2026 examined the package tiers, the published help material, and the principal marketing pages, and located no renewal rate in any of them. The pattern indicates a figure disclosed at checkout or over the telephone. That is a decision rather than an omission.

We will not estimate what it might be, and we would treat with suspicion any page that did. The difficulty is intelligible without a number in any case. Louisiana requires an agent named on the record for the whole period an entity remains registered, so the renewal rate, whatever it proves to be, is the figure that governs this expense across the life of the company. A buyer shown only the free year has seen the smaller part of the decision.

What the Free Year Sits Alongside in Louisiana

A formation bundle in this state carries a detail worth noticing. Louisiana requires the Articles of Organization to be filed together with an Initial Report, not as a separate later step, and the articles fee moves from $100 to $125 on October 1, 2026 under Act 921 of the 2026 Regular Session. Card payment adds a $5 statutory convenience charge on top.

The relevance is this. A bundle assembled around formation is priced against a set of state fees that is itself scheduled to change, and the agent line inside that bundle is the one component that continues billing long after the formation work is finished. It is the recurring element, and it is the element with no published figure attached.

Worth adding, since the registered office is where all of this correspondence lands: in Louisiana that office is the LLC's legal domicile, for every purpose the law recognizes. It is the company's residence in the eyes of the state, not a mailing preference, which argues for choosing an address on terms you can see rather than terms you will be told later.

Our Figure, Quoted for Every Year

$99 now and $99 in the ninth year, published before any money changes hands, with no introductory term, no tier above the one purchased, and no further pricing conversation scheduled for year three.

A summons left at our Louisiana office is scanned and sitting in the client dashboard the same business day, the document itself carried by email notification. Our Louisiana address occupies the public record instead of yours. A single service is sold, so nothing is proposed at checkout. Should you want routine business mail scanned as well as legal documents, that is $15 per item, stated here rather than raised later.

A rival publishes $90, nine dollars under us: BetterLegal. We name it because a page arguing for transparent pricing cannot then be quiet about the one figure below its own. Ours is among the lowest flat annual rates in Louisiana with same-day handling included, which is a different and more defensible claim than being cheapest.

When You Leave Inc Authority, Louisiana Charges $25 Until October

The numbered change document, #983, is lodged with the Commercial Division and costs $25, a figure Act 921 lifts to $30 on the first of October alongside the formation fee. On paper it must carry a notarized affidavit of acknowledgment and acceptance from the agent stepping in, which we prepare and execute as a matter of course; through geauxBIZ, acceptance arrives by email instead.

The practical consolation is that an unpublished renewal is only dangerous where leaving is costly or slow, and in Louisiana it is neither. Whatever figure eventually appears on that invoice, your remedy is one filing and a modest fee, cheaper still if taken before the fall.

Engage the replacement before the renewal invoice is due, not after it has been paid, and let the appointment overlap until the state record confirms the change. There is no waiting period and no seasonal restriction, so the change may be filed on any business day, including one inside the free year.

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Every Louisiana rate we were able to verify appears in our price index.