Who keeps this file, and why every figure carries a date

This is a one desk operation. The byline says the filings desk because that is what it is, and a personal name on it would be a decoration rather than a credential.

The subject here is state paperwork, which has a specific failure mode: pages go out of date without saying so. A state can change a fee in January and leave three of its own pages showing the old figure in August. That is not hypothetical, it is what happened this year with the Delaware annual tax, and it is the reason every number on this site carries the page it came from and the day it was checked.

The working rule is that a figure without a date is not a figure. If you find one here, it is a mistake and worth telling us about.

Nothing on this site is paid placement. No formation agent, registered agent or bank has ever paid to appear, and there are no affiliate links, which matters more in this subject than in most because the entire adjacent industry is paid on volume.

None of this is legal or tax advice. It is a description of how the mechanisms work, and when the amounts are large enough to matter the question belongs with somebody who can read your own filings.