MA registered agent
Massachusetts. $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 Massachusetts 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
... such terms and conditions, including the payment of reasonable fees, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 14.22(c)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... of state and his successor in office to be its true and lawful attorney upon whom ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 15.10(b)-(d); see also c. 156C, § 54(b)
How Massachusetts 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
... any taxes under chapter 62C or chapter 63 of the General Laws for 2 or more consecutive ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 14.20; procedure § 14.21
Locked out of the courthouse
... filing the certificate required by section 15.03 shall not maintain a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 15.02(a)
The penalty
... more than five hundred dollars. ... no action shall be maintained or recovery had by the foreign limited liability company in any of the courts of the commonwealth ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156C, § 54(a)
The Massachusetts annual report. Also skippable.
Massachusetts 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
$500 each year. Every year.
... filing of the annual report required by subsection (c) shall be five ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MGL c.156C s.12(d)
Yearly report, corporation
$125 each year. Every year.
... $125.00; $150 if not filed timely ($100 if filed electronically)
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Secretary of the Commonwealth, Corporations Division Filing Fees - Domestic Profit and Professional Corporations
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 Massachusetts code, word for word:
... of the corporation: (i) an individual, including the secretary or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 5.01; see also c. 156C, § 5(2)
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.