FL registered agent
Florida. $17 a year. Straight from the bowl.
Florida makes every company it registers name a registered agent at a street address inside its borders. We start with what the state does when that agent is us, then work back up to what it asked for in the first place.
What Florida pours on a company whose agent is us
The remedies come first on this page because they are the part that matters. Quoted from the code. We added nothing, not even water.
Dissolved by the state, administratively
... (d) Deliver for filing a statement of change under s. 607.0502 within 30 days after a change has occurred in the name or address of the agent ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.1420(1)(c), (4); sec. 605.0714(1)(c)
Locked out of the courthouse
... complies with this section, pays to the department any amounts required under this chapter, and, to the extent ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction, pays to the department a penalty of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.0501(6)-(7); sec. 605.0113(5)
A civil penalty, in dollars
... state for $500 for each year, or part of a year, during which the corporation ... fails to comply with these requirements ... The failure to comply timely or fully with an order directing that a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.0505(1)(b)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... (d) The foreign corporation does not deliver for filing a statement of a change under s. 607.1508 within 30 days after the change in the name or address of the agent has occurred ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.1530(1)(c), (4)
How much of that we do
None of it. It settled.
What Florida asked for in the first place
What the state asked for
The Florida code, undiluted:
... An individual who resides in this state whose business address is identical to the address of the registered office; 2. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.0501(1); sec. 605.0113(1), (6)
The Florida annual report, which can also be left to settle
Florida charges a yearly amount to keep a company on its books. Here it is. Leaving it unpaid saves the whole amount, in exactly the way the rest of this site saves you money.
Yearly report fee for an LLC
$138.75 each year, down the drain.
Annual Report (with supplemental fee) $138.75
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. s. 605.0213 ('For filing an annual report, $50') + s. 607.193 ('an annual supplemental corporate fee of $88.75')
Yearly report fee for a corporation
$150 each year, down the drain.
Profit Annual Report (with supplemental fee) $150.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. s. 607.0122 ('Annual report: $61.25.') + s. 607.193 ($88.75 supplemental corporate fee)
The refill fee
The refill fee
... 607.1420 ... may apply to the department for reinstatement at any time after the effective date of dissolution. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.1422(1); sec. 607.0122(13); sec. 605.0213(6)
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Florida keeps its rule for serving an agentless company in a chapter we never got to. The pages had stuck together.
Statute text as captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and checked line by line against the state code on 2026-08-10. The code moves like water. This page sits.