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:
... but need not be, the same as its place of business; (2) A registered agent, which agent may ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.370.1; see also RSMo 347.030.1 (LLCs)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... 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 ...
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
... (5) The corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for thirty days or more; (6) The corporation does not notify the secretary of state ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.484(5)-(6); procedure at RSMo 351.486
Further
... necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under section 351.476 and notify claimants under sections 351.478 and 351.482, and any officer or director ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.486.3
Administrative dissolution by the state
... to comply with the provisions of sections 347.010 to 347.187 by failing ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 347.183(2)-(3)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... by a reinstatement fee in the amount of fifty dollars plus any delinquent fees, penalties, ...
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.
Do limited liability companies have to file an annual report? ...
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.