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:
... and (2) a registered agent who may be any of the following individuals ...
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
... the business address of such resident agent ... and every foreign corporation whose resident agent refuses to act as such, shall be deemed to have appointed the secretary of ...
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 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 ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 14.20; procedure § 14.21
Loss of standing to sue
... commonwealth without delivering to the secretary of state for filing the certificate required by section 15.03 shall not maintain a proceeding ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 15.02(a)
Pecuniary penalty
... the state secretary shall, for each year that such failure shall continue, be fined not more than five hundred dollars. ... no action ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156C, § 54(a)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... may subject the reinstatement to such terms and conditions, including ...
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.
... for the filing of the annual report required by subsection (c) ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MGL c.156C s.12(d)
Annual report, corporation
$125 per annum.
... Report $125.00; $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.