MN registered agent
Registered agent service in Minnesota. $24 a year. Yes.
Every Minnesota 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 Minnesota
Requirement
The Minnesota code provides:
... of another jurisdiction must designate a registered agent when registering to do business in Minnesota. The ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 5.36, subd. 2; see also §§ 302A.121, 322C.0113
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... maintain an agent for service of process in this state or the agent for service of process cannot ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 322C.0116, subd. 2; see also §§ 5.25, subds. 1, 3-4; 302A.901, subd. 1
Enforcement in Minnesota
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Further
... agent has been appointed then on an officer, manager, or general partner of the entity; or (3) if no agent, officer, manager, or general partner can ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 5.25, subd. 1
Further
... by delivering to and leaving with the secretary of state ... one copy of it and a fee of $50 in the following circumstances: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 5.25, subd. 4(a)
Administrative dissolution by the state
... with section 5.34 must be dissolved by the secretary of state ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 302A.821, subd. 4; see also § 322C.0705
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... section 5.34 and the $25 fee with the secretary of state: (1) returns the corporation to good standing as of the date of the dissolution; (2) validates contracts or other acts within the authority ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 302A.821, subd. 4(c); § 322C.0706(a)
The Minnesota annual report, which you may also decline
Annual report, limited liability company
Minnesota files the annual report without charge. Decline it regardless.
no fee is required to file an annual renewal
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. 322C.0208
Annual report, corporation
Minnesota files the annual report without charge. Decline it regardless.
Annual Renewal $0 $0
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: MN SOS Business Filing & Certification Fee Schedule, Business Corporation (Domestic) - Chapter 302A
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.