FL registered agent
Florida. $7 a year. Shallow end.
The rule is at the bottom of this page. We start with the bill, because that is the part that gets wet first. Every Florida company names an agent with a real address in the state. We have the address. We keep a bowl at it.
The bill to climb back out
The climb-out fee
... then owed by the corporation at the rates provided by law at the time the corporation applies for reinstatement ... signed by both the registered agent and an officer ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.1422(1); sec. 607.0122(13); sec. 605.0213(6)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Florida keeps its fallback service rule somewhere deeper than we go.
How Florida drains a company like yours
The state's own remedies for an agent that is furniture. Quoted. We added nothing, which is our specialty.
Drained by the state
... 607.0501; (d) Deliver for filing a statement of change under s. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.1420(1)(c), (4); sec. 605.0714(1)(c)
Locked out of the courthouse
... this chapter, and, to the extent ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction, pays to the department a penalty of $5 for each day it has failed to so ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.0501(6)-(7); sec. 605.0113(5)
The penalty
... The failure to comply timely or fully with an order directing ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.0505(1)(b)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... 607.1507; (d) The foreign corporation does not deliver for filing a statement of a change under s. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.1530(1)(c), (4)
The Florida annual report. Also skippable.
Florida sends a bill every year to keep your company listed. Here is the bill. Not paying it is a saving of the exact kind we are.
Yearly report, LLC
$138.75 each year. Every year.
Annual Report (with supplemental fee) $138.75
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. s. 605.0213 ('For filing an annual report, $50') + s. 607.193 ('an annual supplemental corporate fee of $88.75')
Yearly report, corporation
$150 each year. Every year.
Profit Annual Report (with supplemental fee) $150.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. s. 607.0122 ('Annual report: $61.25.') + s. 607.193 ($88.75 supplemental corporate fee)
Do we do that
We are the bowl. The bowl does not do things.
The rule, at the bottom where we left it
What the state asks
The Florida code, word for word:
... authorized entity and whose business address is identical to the address of the registered office; or 3. A ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.0501(1); sec. 605.0113(1), (6)
The quoted text was captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and checked against the code on 2026-08-10. Laws move. Puddles do not.