If you’re trying to get your company out of Washington State or shut it down, the only way you legally get off the hook for Washington taxes, late fees, and continual annual report fees is to officially withdraw or cancel your company registration.
For a corporation, you have to get a revenue tax clearance. We have the form here: DOR Withdrawal Clearance Form
Once you fill that out and mail into the department of revenue, you’ll get a tax clearance letter back from them in about 2-4 weeks. You then take that letter and send it into the Secretary of State with the withdrawal form: Application for Certificate of Withdrawal , and they will cancel your company. This is the only way for a corporation to officially get off the record for Washington State.
The LLC is a little simpler. You don’t have to wait for the department of revenue clearance certificate. You don’t even need to send one in. Just send in the LLC withdrawal form: Certificate of Cancellation/Withdrawal and you’ll get the dissolution certificate back in about 2-4 weeks.
Both the LLC and Corporation do not have filing fees for these forms which are nice. You will have to pay any unpaid taxes to make it work for you though.
Forms List:
DOR Withdrawal Clearance FormApplication for Certificate of Withdrawal - Corporation
Certificate of Cancellation/Withdrawal - LLC
How To Cancel Your Registered Agent Service
The only way to cancel your registered agent service with us is to mail us verification that you have:
- changed your registered agent.
- dissolved your domestic entity.
- withdrawn your foreign entity.
If none of these have been done, we are still doing our job as your registered agent. We have a legal duty to do our job and can't refuse service, thus need to be paid until we are not listed as the agent. Failure to pay our yearly $65.00 fee will result in late fees, collections, etc.
If you want to cancel service, that's totally fine, we just need you to wrap things up with the state so you're off the hook and we are too!