MA registered agent
Registered agent service in Massachusetts. $24 a year. Yes.
Every Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts
Requirement
The Massachusetts code provides:
Each corporation shall continuously maintain in the commonwealth: (1) a registered office that may, but need not be, the same as any of its places of business; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 5.01; see also c. 156C, § 5(2)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... and lawful attorney upon whom all lawful process in any action or proceeding may be served so long as any liability incurred in the commonwealth while it was doing business shall remain outstanding.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 15.10(b)-(d); see also c. 156C, § 54(b)
Enforcement in Massachusetts
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Administrative dissolution by the state
The secretary of state may commence a proceeding under section 14.21 to dissolve a corporation administratively if: (a) the corporation has failed to comply with the provisions of law requiring the filing of reports with the secretary of state or the filing of any tax returns or the payment of any taxes under chapter 62C or chapter 63 of the General Laws for 2 or more consecutive years; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 14.20; procedure § 14.21
Loss of standing to sue
... of state for filing the certificate required by section 15.03 shall not maintain a proceeding in any court in the commonwealth until the certificate is delivered and filed.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 15.02(a)
Pecuniary penalty
A foreign limited liability company doing business in the commonwealth which fails to register with the state secretary shall, for each year that such failure shall continue, be fined not more than five hundred dollars. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156C, § 54(a)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... terms and conditions, including the payment of reasonable fees, as in his judgment the public interest may require.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 14.22(c)
The Massachusetts annual report, which you may also decline
Massachusetts 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
$500 per annum.
... report required by subsection (c) shall be five hundred dollars.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MGL c.156C s.12(d)
Annual report, corporation
$125 per annum.
... $150 if not filed timely ($100 if filed electronically)
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Secretary of the Commonwealth, Corporations Division Filing Fees - Domestic Profit and Professional Corporations
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.