TX registered agent
Registered agent service in Texas. $24 a year. Yes.
Every Texas 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 Texas
Requirement
The Texas code provides:
... the secretary of state to serve as the registered agent of the entity; or (B) an organization, other than the filing entity or foreign filing entity to be ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 5.201(b)-(c)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... a foreign filing entity and: (A) the entity fails to appoint or does not maintain a registered agent ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 5.251
Enforcement in Texas
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Administrative dissolution by the state
... to, and, before the 91st day after the date notice was mailed has not ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 11.251(b)(1)(B)
Revocation of foreign authority
... entity has failed to, and, before the 91st day after the date notice was mailed, has not corrected the entity's failure to: (A) file a report within the period required by law or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.101(b)(1)(B)
Loss of standing to sue
... proceeding in a court of this state, brought either directly by the entity or in the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.051(b)
Pecuniary penalty
... liable to this state for a civil penalty in an amount equal to all: (1) fees and taxes that would ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.052(a)
Further
... of the amount of the registration fee for the foreign filing entity multiplied by the number of calendar years that the entity transacted business in this state without being registered. For purposes ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.054
Further
... agent filing that names a person the registered agent of a represented entity without the person's consent. ... An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor unless the actor's intent is to ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code §§ 5.207, 4.008(b)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... an application for reinstatement of a corporation or registration as a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 4.152(14)
The Texas annual report, which you may also decline
Annual report, limited liability company
Texas levies no annual report fee, per the guidance quoted below. There is nothing to decline.
... collects management information for corporations and LLCs from the ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: TX SOS Management and Ownership FAQs #3
Annual report, corporation
Texas levies no annual report fee, per the guidance quoted below. There is nothing to decline.
... periodic report (Form 802) $5*; Annual statement of a professional association (Form 803) ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: TX SOS SOSDirect Fee Schedule, 'Reports' section
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.