NM registered agent
New Mexico registered agent service, $5 a year
New Mexico requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what New Mexico law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What New Mexico requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the New Mexico code:
Each corporation shall have and continuously maintain in this state: A. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-11-11; NMSA 1978, 53-19-5(A)
How we comply
We don't.
What New Mexico 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
If a corporation fails for a period of thirty days to file the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-11-12(A)-(B)
And also
A corporation administratively revoked pursuant to this section ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-11-12(B), (D)
Administrative dissolution
A limited liability company may be revoked by the commission [secretary of state] if: A. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-19-66.1
Revocation (foreign entities)
The certificate of authority of a foreign corporation to transact ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-17-17(A)(2)-(3)
No access to the courts
A. A foreign limited liability company transacting business in New Mexico may not maintain an action, suit or proceeding in a court of New Mexico until it has registered in New Mexico. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-19-53(A), (E)
The bill to come back
We couldn't be bothered to look this up. incFACTS carries no human-verified reinstatement fee for New Mexico in the registered agent dataset, and we are not the kind of company that checks.
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
We couldn't be bothered to look this up. New Mexico puts the fallback rules for serving an agentless company somewhere other than the entity code, and we stopped reading.
One more thing to skip: the New Mexico annual report
Our other ways to save money apply here too. New Mexico 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
New Mexico charges no annual report fee, per the state's own guidance quoted below. There is nothing here to skip, which we found disappointing.
53-5-2. Corporate and supplemental reports. ... a domestic or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978, 53-5-2(A) (corporate report duty runs to corporations only)
Annual report fee, corporation
$25 a year.
(16) filing a corporate report and filing a supplemental report, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: NMSA 1978 ยง 53-2-1(A)(16)
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.