MO registered agent
Missouri. $17 a year. Straight from the bowl.
Missouri 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 Missouri 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
... (6) The corporation does not notify the secretary of state within thirty days that its registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its registered office has been discontinued;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.484(5)-(6); procedure at RSMo 351.486
Also in the water
... and liquidate its business and affairs under section 351.476 and notify claimants under sections 351.478 and 351.482, and any officer or director who conducts business on behalf of a corporation so ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.486.3
Dissolved by the state, administratively
... to 347.187 by failing to file required documents under sections 347.010 to 347.187, by failing to maintain a registered agent, by failing to pay the required filing fees ... Thirty days before such ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 347.183(2)-(3)
How much of that we do
None of it. It settled.
What Missouri asked for in the first place
What the state asked for
The Missouri code, undiluted:
... (2) A registered agent, which agent may be either an individual, resident in this state, whose business office is identical with such registered office, or a corporation authorized to transact business in this state having a business office identical with such registered office.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.370.1; see also RSMo 347.030.1 (LLCs)
The Missouri annual report, which can also be left to settle
Missouri 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
Missouri charges no annual report fee, per the guidance quoted below. Nothing to leave unpaid. The bowl is empty on this one.
... limited liability companies have to file an annual report? ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Missouri Secretary of State - Frequently Asked Questions, Limited Liability Companies
Yearly report fee for a corporation
$20 each year, down the drain.
Annual Registration Report Filed Timely (on-line) ... 20.00
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/Business/fees.pdf
The refill fee
The refill fee
... fee in the amount of fifty dollars plus any delinquent fees, penalties, and charges ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.488.1(5)
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... In the event that any process, notice, or demand is served on the secretary of state, he shall immediately cause a copy thereof to be forwarded by registered mail, addressed to the corporation at its registered office in this state.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.380.1; see also RSMo 347.033.3 (LLCs)
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.