MO registered agent
Missouri registered agent service, $5 a year
Missouri requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Missouri law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Missouri requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the Missouri code:
Each corporation shall have and continuously maintain in this state: (1) A registered office which may be, but need not be, the same as its place of business; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.370.1; see also RSMo 347.030.1 (LLCs)
How we comply
We don't.
What Missouri 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 pursuant to section 351.486 to dissolve a corporation administratively if: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.484(5)-(6); procedure at RSMo 351.486
And also
A corporation administratively dissolved continues its corporate ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.486.3
Administrative dissolution
The power to cancel or disapprove any articles of organization ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 347.183(2)-(3)
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
(5) Be accompanied by a reinstatement fee in the amount of fifty ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.488.1(5)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
In the event that a corporation shall fail to appoint or maintain ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.380.1; see also RSMo 347.033.3 (LLCs)
One more thing to skip: the Missouri annual report
Our other ways to save money apply here too. Missouri 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
Missouri charges no annual report fee, per the state's own guidance quoted below. There is nothing here to skip, which we found disappointing.
Do limited liability companies have to file an annual report? ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Missouri Secretary of State - Frequently Asked Questions, Limited Liability Companies
Annual report fee, corporation
$20 a year.
Annual Registration Report Filed Timely (on-line) ... 20.00
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/Business/fees.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.