FL registered agent
Registered agent service in Florida. $24 a year. Yes.
Every Florida company must appoint a registered agent at a street address in the state. What follows is the statute, quoted where it matters, and our position on it, which is brief.
The statutory requirement in Florida
Requirement
The Florida code provides:
... A foreign entity authorized to transact business in this state which is an authorized entity and whose business address is identical to the address of the registered office.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.0501(1); sec. 605.0113(1), (6)
Service of process in our absence
Florida provides for service on an agentless company elsewhere in its code. We have not read it.
Enforcement in Florida
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Administrative dissolution by the state
... (d) Deliver for filing a statement of change under s. 607.0502 within 30 days after a change has occurred in the name or address of the agent ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.1420(1)(c), (4); sec. 605.0714(1)(c)
Loss of standing to sue
... under this chapter, and, to the extent ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction, pays to the department a penalty of $5 for each day it has failed to so comply or $500, whichever is less.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.0501(6)-(7); sec. 605.0113(5)
Pecuniary penalty
... or fully with an order directing that a registered agent be appointed and that a registered office be designated will result in a civil penalty of not more than $1,000 for each day of noncompliance.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.0505(1)(b)
Revocation of foreign authority
... (d) The foreign corporation does not deliver for filing a statement of a change under s. 607.1508 within 30 days after the change in the name or address of the agent has occurred ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.1530(1)(c), (4)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... 607.1420 ... may apply to the department for reinstatement at any time after the effective date of dissolution. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.1422(1); sec. 607.0122(13); sec. 605.0213(6)
The Florida annual report, which you may also decline
Florida levies an annual charge to keep a company in good standing. The amount is below. Declining it is consistent with everything else on this page.
Annual report, limited liability company
$138.75 per annum.
Annual Report (with supplemental fee) $138.75
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. s. 605.0213 ('For filing an annual report, $50') + s. 607.193 ('an annual supplemental corporate fee of $88.75')
Annual report, corporation
$150 per annum.
Profit Annual Report (with supplemental fee) $150.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. s. 607.0122 ('Annual report: $61.25.') + s. 607.193 ($88.75 supplemental corporate fee)
Our position
We decline. At this price you may have expected otherwise.
Statutory text captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01, verified against the code on 2026-08-10. Statutes are amended. This page is not.