FL registered agent
Florida registered agent service, $5 a year
Florida requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Florida law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Florida requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the Florida code:
Each corporation shall designate and continuously maintain in this state: (a) A registered office, which may be the same as its place of business in this state; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.0501(1); sec. 605.0113(1), (6)
How we comply
We don't.
What Florida does to your company when we don't
Here is what the state does to an entity that has no agent, or whose agent is us.
Administrative dissolution
The department may dissolve a corporation administratively if the corporation does not: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.1420(1)(c), (4); sec. 605.0714(1)(c)
No access to the courts
A corporation may not prosecute or maintain an action in a court ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.0501(6)-(7); sec. 605.0113(5)
Civil penalty
Each such corporation, foreign corporation, or alien business ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.0505(1)(b)
Revocation (foreign entities)
A certificate of authority of a foreign corporation to transact business in this state may be revoked by the department if: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.1530(1)(c), (4)
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
A corporation that is administratively dissolved under s. 607.1420 ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.1422(1); sec. 607.0122(13); sec. 605.0213(6)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
We couldn't be bothered to look this up. Florida puts the fallback rules for serving an agentless company somewhere other than the entity code, and we stopped reading.
One more thing to skip: the Florida annual report
Our other ways to save money apply here too. Florida charges the following to keep your company on its books each year. Skipping it saves the whole amount, right up until it does not.
Annual report fee, LLC
$138.75 a year.
Annual Report (with supplemental fee) $138.75
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. s. 605.0213 ('For filing an annual report, $50') + s. 607.193 ('an annual supplemental corporate fee of $88.75')
Annual report fee, corporation
$150 a year.
Profit Annual Report (with supplemental fee) $150.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. s. 607.0122 ('Annual report: $61.25.') + s. 607.193 ($88.75 supplemental corporate fee)
Statutory text as captured by incFACTS (retrieved 2026-08-01, verified word-for-word against the state code 2026-08-10). Laws change. The statute governs; this page does not.