MA registered agent
Massachusetts. $17 a year. Straight from the bowl.
Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts 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
... or (b) the secretary of state is satisfied that the corporation has become inactive and that its dissolution would be in the public interest.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 14.20; procedure § 14.21
Locked out of the courthouse
... without delivering to the secretary of state for filing the certificate required by section 15.03 shall not maintain a proceeding in any court in the commonwealth until ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 15.02(a)
A civil penalty, in dollars
... no action shall be maintained or recovery had by the foreign limited liability company in any of the courts of the commonwealth as long as such failure continues.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156C, § 54(a)
How much of that we do
None of it. It settled.
What Massachusetts asked for in the first place
What the state asked for
The Massachusetts code, undiluted:
... or (iii) a foreign corporation or not-for-profit foreign corporation qualified to do business in this commonwealth.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 5.01; see also c. 156C, § 5(2)
The Massachusetts annual report, which can also be left to settle
Massachusetts 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
$500 each year, down the drain.
... of the annual report required by subsection (c) shall be five ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MGL c.156C s.12(d)
Yearly report fee for a corporation
$125 each year, down the drain.
... $125.00; $150 if not filed timely ($100 if filed ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Secretary of the Commonwealth, Corporations Division Filing Fees - Domestic Profit and Professional Corporations
The refill fee
The refill fee
... the reinstatement to such terms and conditions, including the payment of reasonable fees, as in his judgment the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 14.22(c)
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... every foreign corporation whose resident agent refuses to act as such, shall be deemed to have appointed the secretary of state and his successor in office to be its true and lawful attorney upon ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 15.10(b)-(d); see also c. 156C, § 54(b)
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.