MS registered agent
Registered agent service in Mississippi. $24 a year. Yes.
Every Mississippi 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 Mississippi
Requirement
The Mississippi code provides:
... or a domestic or foreign entity that serves in this state as the agent for service of process of an entity. ... Whenever a provision of this chapter ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. §§ 79-35-2(13), 79-35-4
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... with reasonable diligence be served, the governors of the entity will be treated as the entity's agent for service of process who may be served pursuant ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-35-13(b)
Enforcement in Mississippi
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Administrative dissolution by the state
... (3) The corporation is without a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-4-14.20(3)-(4); procedure at § 79-4-14.21
Administrative dissolution by the state
... (c) The limited liability company is without a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-29-821(c)-(d); procedure at § 79-29-823
Loss of standing to sue
... has been administratively dissolved may not maintain any action, suit or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-4-14.21(f)
Revocation of foreign authority
... transact business in this state if: ... (3) The foreign corporation is without a registered agent in this state ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-4-15.30(3)-(4); procedure at § 79-4-15.31
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... unless it complies with the applicable statutory reinstatement requirements and unless it provides to the Secretary of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-35-19(2)
The Mississippi annual report, which you may also decline
Mississippi 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
Mississippi files the annual report without charge. Decline it regardless.
F0108 MS LLC Annual Report $0
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://www.sos.ms.gov/content/documents/Business/FeeSchedule.pdf
Annual report, corporation
$25 per annum.
F0008 Annual Report $25
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://www.sos.ms.gov/content/documents/Business/FeeSchedule.pdf
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.