MI registered agent
Michigan. $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 Michigan 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
... fees for the years for which they were not filed and paid, and for every subsequent intervening year, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.1925(1); MCL 450.5101(1)(h)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... or served through the exercise of reasonable diligence, service of process may be made by delivering or mailing by registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.4207(4)
How Michigan drains a company like yours
The state's own remedies for an agent that is furniture. Quoted. We added nothing, which is our specialty.
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... agent in this state as required under this act. (b) The corporation, after changing its registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.2041(a)-(b); procedure MCL 450.2042
Drained by the state
... or refusal continues for a period of 2 years from the date on which the annual report or filing fee was due, the corporation is automatically dissolved 60 days after the expiration ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.1922(1)
The penalty
... the corporation, in addition to its liability for the fee, is subject to a penalty of $10.00 for each month or part of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.1921(1)
And this
... entity filing with the administrator, and the administrator shall not accept for filing any document submitted by the limited liability ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.4207a(3)
The Michigan annual report. Also skippable.
Michigan 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
$25 each year. Every year.
... registered office, $15.00 if paid after September 30, 2027. Through September 30, 2027, the fee ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.5101(1)(g) (Am. 2023, Act 133)
Yearly report, corporation
$25 each year. Every year.
... 911, $15.00 if paid after September 30, 2027. Before October 1, 2027, the fee is $25.00.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.2060(1)(u) (Am. 2023, Act 135)
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 Michigan code, word for word:
... or a foreign corporation or limited liability company authorized to transact business in this state. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.1241; see also MCL 450.4207(1)
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.