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
... corrected the entity's failure to: (A) file a report within the period required by law or pay a fee or penalty prescribed by law when ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 11.251(b)(1)(B)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... has not corrected the entity's failure to: (A) file a report within the period required by law or pay a fee or penalty prescribed by law when due and payable; (B) maintain a registered agent or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.101(b)(1)(B)
Locked out of the courthouse
... 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 state unless the foreign filing ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.051(b)
A civil penalty, in dollars
... fees and taxes that would have been imposed by law on the entity had the entity registered when first required and filed all reports required by ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.052(a)
Also in the water
... multiplied by the number of calendar years that the entity transacted business in this state without ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.054
Also in the water
... represented entity without the person's consent. ... An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor unless the actor's intent is ...
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:
... be represented, that: (i) is registered or authorized to do business in this state; and (ii) has consented in a written or electronic form ... and (3) must maintain a business office at the ...
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.
... corporations and LLCs from the entity's Public Information Report (PIR) that are filed as part of the entity's franchise tax report. PIRs list the names and ...
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.
... Annual statement of a professional association (Form 803) $35; ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: TX SOS SOSDirect Fee Schedule, 'Reports' section
The refill fee
The refill fee
... reinstatement of a corporation or registration as a foreign corporation ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 4.152(14)
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... agent of the entity cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the registered office of the entity; or (2) the entity ...
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.