MO registered agent
Missouri. $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 Missouri 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
... fee in the amount of fifty dollars plus any delinquent fees, penalties, and charges that ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.488.1(5)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
In the event that a corporation shall fail to appoint or maintain a registered agent in this state, then the secretary of state as long as such default exists shall be automatically appointed as an agent of such corporation upon whom any process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served upon the corporation may be served. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.380.1; see also RSMo 347.033.3 (LLCs)
How Missouri 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
The secretary of state may commence a proceeding pursuant to section 351.486 to dissolve a corporation administratively if: ... (5) The corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for thirty days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.484(5)-(6); procedure at RSMo 351.486
And this
... and affairs under section 351.476 and notify claimants under sections 351.478 and 351.482, and any officer or director who conducts business on behalf of a corporation so dissolved except as ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.486.3
Drained by the state
... required documents under sections 347.010 to 347.187, by failing to maintain a registered agent, by failing to pay the required filing fees ... Thirty days before such cancellation shall take ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 347.183(2)-(3)
The Missouri annual report. Also skippable.
Missouri 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
Missouri charges no annual report fee, per the guidance quoted below. Nothing to skip. The bowl is empty.
... liability companies have to file an annual report? ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Missouri Secretary of State - Frequently Asked Questions, Limited Liability Companies
Yearly report, corporation
$20 each year. Every year.
Annual Registration Report Filed Timely (on-line) ... 20.00
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/Business/fees.pdf
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 Missouri code, word for word:
Each corporation shall have and continuously maintain in this state: (1) A registered office which may be, but need not be, the same as its place of business; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.370.1; see also RSMo 347.030.1 (LLCs)
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.