MI registered agent
Michigan. $17 a year. Straight from the bowl.
Michigan 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 Michigan 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.
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... to maintain a resident agent in this state as required under this act. (b) ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.2041(a)-(b); procedure MCL 450.2042
Dissolved by the state, administratively
... law, and the neglect or refusal continues for a period of 2 years from the date on which the annual report or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.1922(1)
A civil penalty, in dollars
... the time specified, the corporation, in addition to its liability for the fee, is subject to a penalty of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.1921(1)
Also in the water
... available for use by another entity filing with the administrator, and the administrator shall not accept for ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.4207a(3)
How much of that we do
None of it. It settled.
What Michigan asked for in the first place
What the state asked for
The Michigan code, undiluted:
... a domestic corporation or limited liability company; or a foreign corporation or limited liability company authorized to transact business in this state. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.1241; see also MCL 450.4207(1)
The Michigan annual report, which can also be left to settle
Michigan 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
$25 each year, down the drain.
... and registered office, $15.00 if paid after September 30, 2027. Through September 30, 2027, the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.5101(1)(g) (Am. 2023, Act 133)
Yearly report fee for a corporation
$25 each year, down the drain.
... 911, $15.00 if paid after September 30, 2027. Before October ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.2060(1)(u) (Am. 2023, Act 135)
The refill fee
The refill fee
... and paying the fees for the years for which they were not filed and paid, and for every subsequent ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.1925(1); MCL 450.5101(1)(h)
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... cannot be found or served through the exercise of reasonable diligence, service of process may be ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.4207(4)
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.