TX registered agent
Texas. $17 a year. Straight from the bowl.
Texas 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 Texas 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) maintain a registered agent or registered office in this state as required by law...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 11.251(b)(1)(B)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... (B) maintain a registered agent or registered office in this state as required by law...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.101(b)(1)(B)
Locked out of the courthouse
... court of this state, brought either directly by the entity or in the form of a derivative action in the entity's name, on a cause of action that arises out of the transaction of business in this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.051(b)
A civil penalty, in dollars
... and (2) penalties and interest imposed by law for failure to pay those fees and taxes.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.052(a)
Also in the water
... For purposes of computing the fee, a partial calendar year is counted as a full calendar year.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.054
Also in the water
... An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor unless the actor's intent is to defraud or harm another, in which event the offense is a state jail felony.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code §§ 5.207, 4.008(b)
How much of that we do
None of it. It settled.
What Texas asked for in the first place
What the state asked for
The Texas code, undiluted:
... or (B) an organization, other than the filing entity or foreign filing entity to be represented, that: (i) is registered or authorized to do business in this state; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 5.201(b)-(c)
The Texas annual report, which can also be left to settle
Yearly report fee for an LLC
Texas charges no annual report fee, per the guidance quoted below. Nothing to leave unpaid. The bowl is empty on this one.
... management information for corporations and LLCs from the entity's Public Information Report (PIR) that are filed as part of the entity's franchise tax ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: TX SOS Management and Ownership FAQs #3
Yearly report fee for a corporation
Texas charges no annual report fee, per the guidance quoted below. Nothing to leave unpaid. The bowl is empty on this one.
... Limited partnership periodic report (Form 804) $50*
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: TX SOS SOSDirect Fee Schedule, 'Reports' section
The refill fee
The refill fee
... for reinstatement of a corporation or registration as a foreign corporation after involuntary ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 4.152(14)
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... or (B) the entity transacts business in this state without being registered as required by Chapter 9.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 5.251
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.