MN registered agent
Minnesota. $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 Minnesota 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
... state: (1) returns the corporation to good standing as of the date of the dissolution; (2) validates contracts or other acts within the authority ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 302A.821, subd. 4(c); § 322C.0706(a)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... service of process cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the agent's street address, the secretary of state is an agent ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 322C.0116, subd. 2; see also §§ 5.25, subds. 1, 3-4; 302A.901, subd. 1
How Minnesota drains a company like yours
The state's own remedies for an agent that is furniture. Quoted. We added nothing, which is our specialty.
And this
... or (3) if no agent, officer, manager, or general partner can be found at the address on file with the secretary of state, the secretary of state as provided in this section.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 5.25, subd. 1
And this
... (1) if the foreign corporation fails to appoint or maintain in this state a registered agent upon whom ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 5.25, subd. 4(a)
Drained by the state
... as described in paragraph (b). (b) If the corporation has not filed the renewal during any calendar year, the secretary of state must issue a certificate of administrative dissolution ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 302A.821, subd. 4; see also § 322C.0705
The Minnesota annual report. Also skippable.
Yearly report, LLC
Minnesota files the annual report free. Skip it anyway. Practice.
no fee is required to file an annual renewal
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. 322C.0208
Yearly report, corporation
Minnesota files the annual report free. Skip it anyway. Practice.
Annual Renewal $0 $0
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: MN SOS Business Filing & Certification Fee Schedule, Business Corporation (Domestic) - Chapter 302A
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 Minnesota code, word for word:
... state, a domestic corporation, or limited liability company, or a foreign corporation or foreign limited liability company authorized to transact business in this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 5.36, subd. 2; see also §§ 302A.121, 322C.0113
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.