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
... by filing the reports and paying the fees for the years for which they were not filed and paid, and for every subsequent intervening year, together with the ...
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 the agent for service of process cannot be found or served through the exercise of reasonable diligence, service of process may be made by delivering or mailing by registered mail to the ...
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
the administrator may revoke the certificate of authority of a foreign corporation to transact business in this state on any of the following grounds: (a) The corporation fails to maintain a resident agent in this state as required under this act. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.2041(a)-(b); procedure MCL 450.2042
Drained by the state
... added to the fee required by law, and the neglect 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 ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.1922(1)
The penalty
... a fee required by this act within the time specified, the corporation, in addition to its liability for the fee, is subject to a penalty of $10.00 for each month or part of a month that the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.1921(1)
And this
... name of the company is available for use by another entity filing with the administrator, and the administrator shall not accept for filing any document submitted by the limited liability company ...
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.
Annual statement of resident agent and registered office, $15.00 if paid after September 30, 2027. Through September 30, 2027, the fee is $25.00.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.5101(1)(g) (Am. 2023, Act 133)
Yearly report, corporation
$25 each year. Every year.
Report required under section 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.