MO registered agent
Registered agent service in Missouri. $24 a year. Yes.
Every Missouri 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 Missouri
Requirement
The Missouri code provides:
Each corporation shall have and continuously maintain in this state: (1) A registered office which may be, but need not be, the same as its place of business; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.370.1; see also RSMo 347.030.1 (LLCs)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
In the event that a corporation shall fail to appoint or maintain a registered agent in this state, then the secretary of state as long as such default exists shall be automatically appointed as an agent of such corporation upon whom any process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served upon the corporation may be served. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.380.1; see also RSMo 347.033.3 (LLCs)
Enforcement in Missouri
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 pursuant to section 351.486 to dissolve a corporation administratively if: ... (5) The corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for thirty days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.484(5)-(6); procedure at RSMo 351.486
Further
... and 351.482, and any officer or director who conducts business on behalf of a corporation so dissolved except as provided in this section shall be personally liable for any obligation so incurred.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.486.3
Administrative dissolution by the state
... filing fees ... Thirty days before such cancellation shall take effect, the secretary shall notify the limited liability company with written notice, either personally or by certified mail ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 347.183(2)-(3)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... of fifty dollars plus any delinquent fees, penalties, and charges that might have accrued.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.488.1(5)
The Missouri annual report, which you may also decline
Missouri 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
Missouri levies no annual report fee, per the guidance quoted below. There is nothing to decline.
... liability companies have to file an annual report? No.
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Missouri Secretary of State - Frequently Asked Questions, Limited Liability Companies
Annual report, corporation
$20 per annum.
Annual Registration Report Filed Timely (on-line) ... 20.00
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/Business/fees.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.