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:
... (c) The registered office ... (3) may not be solely a mailbox service or a telephone answering service.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 5.201(b)-(c)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
The secretary of state is an agent of an entity for purposes of service of process, notice, or demand on the entity if: (1) the entity is a filing entity or a foreign filing entity and: (A) the entity fails to appoint or does not maintain a registered agent in this state; ...
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
The secretary of state may terminate a filing entity's existence if the secretary finds that: (1) the 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 pay a fee or penalty prescribed by law when due and payable; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 11.251(b)(1)(B)
Revocation of foreign authority
The secretary of state may revoke a foreign filing entity's registration if the secretary of state finds that: (1) the 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 pay a fee or penalty prescribed by law when due and payable; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.101(b)(1)(B)
Loss of standing to sue
... action in the entity's name, on a cause of action that arises out of the transaction of business in this state unless the foreign filing entity is registered in accordance with this chapter.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.051(b)
Pecuniary penalty
A foreign filing entity that transacts business in this state and is not registered under this chapter is liable to this state for a civil penalty in an amount equal to all: (1) fees and taxes that would have been imposed by law on the entity had the entity registered when first required and filed all reports required by law; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.052(a)
Further
The amount of the late filing fee is an amount equal to the product 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. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.054
Further
Sections 4.007 and 4.008 apply with respect to a false statement in a registered agent filing that names a person the registered agent of a represented entity without the person's consent. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code §§ 5.207, 4.008(b)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... corporation or registration as a foreign corporation after involuntary termination or revocation, $75;
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.
... and LLCs from the entity's Public Information Report (PIR) that are filed as part of the entity's franchise tax report. PIRs list the names and ...
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.
Reports: Nonprofit corporation periodic report (Form 802) $5*; Annual statement of a professional association (Form 803) $35; Limited partnership periodic report (Form 804) $50*
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.