MN registered agent
Minnesota registered agent service, $5 a year
Minnesota requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Minnesota law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Minnesota requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the Minnesota code:
A business entity formed under the laws of Minnesota may designate a registered agent in its formation document. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 5.36, subd. 2; see also §§ 302A.121, 322C.0113
How we comply
We don't.
What Minnesota 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.
And also
may be served on: (1) the registered agent, if any; (2) if no agent has been appointed then on an officer, manager, or general partner of the entity; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 5.25, subd. 1
And also
Service of a process, notice, or demand may be made on a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state by delivering to and leaving with the secretary of state ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 5.25, subd. 4(a)
Administrative dissolution
(a) A corporation that has failed to file a renewal complying with section 5.34 must be dissolved by the secretary of state as described in paragraph (b). ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 302A.821, subd. 4; see also § 322C.0705
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
After administrative dissolution, filing a renewal complying ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 302A.821, subd. 4(c); § 322C.0706(a)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
If a limited liability company or foreign limited liability company ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 322C.0116, subd. 2; see also §§ 5.25, subds. 1, 3-4; 302A.901, subd. 1
One more thing to skip: the Minnesota annual report
Annual report fee, LLC
Minnesota charges nothing to file the annual report. You could skip it anyway, for practice.
no fee is required to file an annual renewal
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. 322C.0208
Annual report fee, corporation
Minnesota charges nothing to file the annual report. You could skip it anyway, for practice.
Annual Renewal $0 $0
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: MN SOS Business Filing & Certification Fee Schedule, Business Corporation (Domestic) - Chapter 302A
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.