MA registered agent
Massachusetts registered agent service, $5 a year
Massachusetts requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Massachusetts law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Massachusetts requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the Massachusetts code:
Each corporation shall continuously maintain in the commonwealth: (1) a registered office that may, but need not be, the same as any of its places of business; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 5.01; see also c. 156C, § 5(2)
How we comply
We don't.
What Massachusetts 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 secretary of state may commence a proceeding under section ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 14.20; procedure § 14.21
No access to the courts
A foreign corporation transacting business in the commonwealth ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 15.02(a)
Civil penalty
A foreign limited liability company doing business in the commonwealth ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156C, § 54(a)
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
The secretary of state may subject the reinstatement to such ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 14.22(c)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
every foreign corporation which has complied with said section ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 15.10(b)-(d); see also c. 156C, § 54(b)
One more thing to skip: the Massachusetts annual report
Our other ways to save money apply here too. Massachusetts 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
$500 a year.
The fee for the filing of the annual report required by subsection ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MGL c.156C s.12(d)
Annual report fee, corporation
$125 a year.
Annual Report $125.00; $150 if not filed timely ($100 if filed ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Secretary of the Commonwealth, Corporations Division Filing Fees - Domestic Profit and Professional Corporations
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.