MI registered agent
Michigan registered agent service, $5 a year
Michigan requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Michigan law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Michigan requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the Michigan code:
(1) Each domestic corporation and each foreign corporation authorized ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.1241; see also MCL 450.4207(1)
How we comply
We don't.
What Michigan 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.
Revocation (foreign entities)
the administrator may revoke the certificate of authority of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.2041(a)-(b); procedure MCL 450.2042
Administrative dissolution
If a domestic corporation neglects or refuses to file an annual ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.1922(1)
Civil penalty
If a domestic or foreign corporation neglects or refuses to file ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.1921(1)
And also
A limited liability company that is not in good standing is not ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.4207a(3)
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
may renew its corporate existence or its certificate of authority ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.1925(1); MCL 450.5101(1)(h)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
If a limited liability company fails to appoint or maintain an ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.4207(4)
One more thing to skip: the Michigan annual report
Our other ways to save money apply here too. Michigan 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
$25 a year.
Annual statement of resident agent and registered office, $15.00 if paid after September 30, 2027. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.5101(1)(g) (Am. 2023, Act 133)
Annual report fee, corporation
$25 a year.
Report required under section 911, $15.00 if paid after September 30, 2027. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.2060(1)(u) (Am. 2023, Act 135)
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.