TX registered agent
Texas registered agent service, $5 a year
Texas requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Texas law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Texas requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the Texas code:
The registered agent ... may be: (A) an individual who: (i) is a resident of this state; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 5.201(b)-(c)
How we comply
We don't.
What Texas 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 terminate a filing entity's existence ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 11.251(b)(1)(B)
Revocation (foreign entities)
The secretary of state may revoke a foreign filing entity's registration ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.101(b)(1)(B)
No access to the courts
A foreign filing entity or the entity's legal representative ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.051(b)
Civil penalty
A foreign filing entity that transacts business in this state ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.052(a)
And also
The amount of the late filing fee is an amount equal to the product ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.054
And also
Sections 4.007 and 4.008 apply with respect to a false statement in a registered agent filing that names a person the registered agent of a represented entity without the person's consent. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code §§ 5.207, 4.008(b)
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
(14) for filing an application for reinstatement of a corporation ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 4.152(14)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
The secretary of state is an agent of an entity for purposes ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 5.251
One more thing to skip: the Texas annual report
Annual report fee, LLC
Texas charges no annual report fee, per the state's own guidance quoted below. There is nothing here to skip, which we found disappointing.
The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts collects management ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: TX SOS Management and Ownership FAQs #3
Annual report fee, corporation
Texas charges no annual report fee, per the state's own guidance quoted below. There is nothing here to skip, which we found disappointing.
Reports: Nonprofit corporation periodic report (Form 802) $5*; ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: TX SOS SOSDirect Fee Schedule, 'Reports' section
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.