Coverage · RI
Form your American company in Rhode Island.
Same desk, same prices, Rhode Island’s own machinery. Filings here run through the Department of State — Business Services Division, and the state calls its agent a resident agent. What follows is Rhode Island’s actual formation landscape.
The Rhode Island facts
Rhode Island calls the role the resident agent.
Your charter is filed with the Department of State — Business Services Division. The resident agent you appoint must be reachable at a physical Rhode Island address during business hours — for founders abroad, that appointment is the whole reason a desk like this one exists. Under Sethhost, the resident agent of record is CorpNet, Incorporated, our disclosed wholesale partner, appointed at filing and named in your service agreement.
Keeping the company alive in Rhode Island
The standing obligation in Rhode Island is its annual report — file Feb 1–May 1 — $50; plus a $400/yr annual charge to the Division of Taxation.
Inside Hosted, those dates sit on your compliance calendar from the day you form — set from your filing record, not a national average — and annual report filing service is part of the subscription where your state uses one. Reminders are best efforts and you remain responsible for your deadlines; that sentence is in the agreement, and it is on this page too.
How Sethhost serves Rhode Island
Formation is prepared at your direction and confirmed by you before filing (Docket 01). The EIN runs through the IRS workflow for founders with or without a Social Security number (Docket 03). Official mail received by the agent is retrieved by our desk each business day and mirrored into your portal under the mail protocol — best efforts, in writing, with no timeframe promised upstream. A five-page website and a US number complete the visible half of the company (Docket 06).
Questions on Rhode Island
How much does Sethhost charge in Rhode Island?
The same as everywhere: Launch $499 one-time and Hosted $79 per month. Rhode Island’s own LLC filing fee is $150 — separate, charged at cost, and itemized for your state at checkout before your filing is placed.
What does Rhode Island call its registered agent?
The resident agent — and the filing office is the Department of State — Business Services Division. State terminology is not pedantry: the wrong term on a form is how filings get rejected.
Can I form in Rhode Island from outside the US?
Yes — that is the standard case here. You choose the state; we never recommend one, because that is legal advice. Compare states on the coverage board and in the guides, then direct us.