KS registered agent
Kansas. $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 Kansas 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
... to engage in business under this code shall file all past due business entity information reports for the immediately preceding 10 years and pay to the secretary of state an amount equal to all ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: K.S.A. 17-7002(g)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
After the resignation of the resident agent shall have become effective, as provided in subsection (a), and if no new resident agent shall have been obtained and designated in the time and manner provided for in subsection (b), service of legal process against the covered entity ... for which the resigned resident agent had been acting shall thereafter be upon the secretary of state in the manner prescribed by K.S.A. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: K.S.A. 17-7929(c)
How Kansas 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
... state, after giving 30 days notice of the intended action, may declare the entity's public organic document forfeited or, in the case of a foreign entity, the secretary may declare the foreign ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: K.S.A. 17-7926(b)
Drained by the state
... agent as aforesaid, prior to the expiration of the period of 60 days after the filing by the resident agent of the certificate of resignation, the secretary of state shall declare the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: K.S.A. 17-7929(b)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... the secretary may declare the foreign entity's authority to do business in this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: K.S.A. 17-7926(b)
The Kansas annual report. Also skippable.
Kansas 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
$90 each year. Every year.
... Information Report: $90 / Paper Information Report: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Kansas SOS Form ILC (rev. 1/23/26)
Yearly report, corporation
$90 each year. Every year.
... Information Report: $90 / Paper Information Report: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Kansas SOS Form IFP, for-profit corporation information report (rev. 7/22/26)
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 Kansas code, word for word:
(a) Every covered entity shall have and maintain in this state a resident agent, which agent may be either: (1) The covered entity itself; (2) an individual resident in this state; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: K.S.A. 17-7925(a)-(b)
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.