MS registered agent
Mississippi registered agent service, $5 a year
Mississippi requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Mississippi law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Mississippi requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the Mississippi code:
"Noncommercial registered agent" means a person that is not listed ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. §§ 79-35-2(13), 79-35-4
How we comply
We don't.
What Mississippi 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 79-4-14.21 to administratively dissolve a corporation if: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-4-14.20(3)-(4); procedure at § 79-4-14.21
Administrative dissolution
The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under Section 79-29-823 to administratively dissolve a limited liability company if: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-29-821(c)-(d); procedure at § 79-29-823
No access to the courts
A corporation that has been administratively dissolved may not ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-4-14.21(f)
Revocation (foreign entities)
The Secretary of State may commence a proceeding under Section 79-4-15.31 to revoke the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state if: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-4-15.30(3)-(4); procedure at § 79-4-15.31
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
Any entity that is administratively dissolved or whose certificate ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-35-19(2)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
If an entity that previously filed a registered agent filing ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-35-13(b)
One more thing to skip: the Mississippi annual report
Our other ways to save money apply here too. Mississippi 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
Mississippi charges nothing to file the annual report. You could skip it anyway, for practice.
F0108 MS LLC Annual Report $0
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://www.sos.ms.gov/content/documents/Business/FeeSchedule.pdf
Annual report fee, corporation
$25 a year.
F0008 Annual Report $25
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://www.sos.ms.gov/content/documents/Business/FeeSchedule.pdf
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.