TX registered agent
Texas. $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 Texas 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
... of a corporation or registration as a foreign corporation after involuntary termination or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 4.152(14)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... or (2) the entity is a foreign filing entity and: (A) the entity's registration to do business under this code is revoked; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 5.251
How Texas 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
... (A) file a report within the period required by law or pay a fee or penalty prescribed by law when due and payable; or (B) maintain ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 11.251(b)(1)(B)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... to: (A) file a report within the period required by law or pay a fee or penalty prescribed ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.101(b)(1)(B)
Locked out of the courthouse
... of a derivative action in the entity's name, on a cause of action that arises out of the transaction of business in this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.051(b)
The penalty
... have been imposed by law on the entity had the entity registered when first required and filed all reports required by law; and (2) penalties and interest imposed by law for failure to ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.052(a)
And this
... number of calendar years that the entity transacted business in this state without being registered. For purposes of computing the fee, a partial calendar year is counted as ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.054
And this
... An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor unless the actor's intent is to defraud or harm another, in which event the offense is a state jail felony.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code §§ 5.207, 4.008(b)
The Texas annual report. Also skippable.
Yearly report, LLC
Texas charges no annual report fee, per the guidance quoted below. Nothing to skip. The bowl is empty.
... from the entity's Public Information Report (PIR) that are filed as ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: TX SOS Management and Ownership FAQs #3
Yearly report, corporation
Texas charges no annual report fee, per the guidance quoted below. Nothing to skip. The bowl is empty.
... Annual statement of a professional association (Form 803) $35; Limited partnership periodic report (Form 804) $50*
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: TX SOS SOSDirect Fee Schedule, 'Reports' section
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 Texas code, word for word:
... and (ii) has consented in a written or electronic form ... and (3) must maintain a business office at the same address as the entity's registered office. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 5.201(b)-(c)
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.