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
... reinstatement of a corporation or registration as a foreign corporation after involuntary termination ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 4.152(14)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
The secretary of state is an agent of an entity for purposes of service of process, notice, or demand on the entity if: (1) the entity is a filing entity or a foreign filing entity and: (A) the entity fails to appoint or does not maintain a registered agent in this state; ...
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
The secretary of state may terminate a filing entity's existence if the secretary finds that: (1) the entity has failed to, and, before the 91st day after the date notice was mailed has not corrected the entity's failure to: (A) file a report within the period required by law or pay a fee or penalty prescribed by law when due and payable; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 11.251(b)(1)(B)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
The secretary of state may revoke a foreign filing entity's registration if the secretary of state finds that: (1) the entity has failed to, and, before the 91st day after the date notice was mailed, has not corrected the entity's failure to: (A) file a report within the period required by law or pay a fee or penalty prescribed by law when due and payable; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.101(b)(1)(B)
Locked out of the courthouse
... brought either directly by the entity or in the form of a derivative action in the entity's name, on a cause of action that arises out of the transaction of business in this state unless the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.051(b)
The penalty
A foreign filing entity that transacts business in this state and is not registered under this chapter is liable to this state for a civil penalty in an amount equal to all: (1) fees and taxes that would have been imposed by law on the entity had the entity registered when first required and filed all reports required by law; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.052(a)
And this
The amount of the late filing fee is an amount equal to the product of the amount of the registration fee for the foreign filing entity multiplied by the number of calendar years that the entity transacted business in this state without being registered. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.054
And this
Sections 4.007 and 4.008 apply with respect to a false statement in a registered agent filing that names a person the registered agent of a represented entity without the person's consent. ...
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.
... information for corporations and LLCs from the entity's Public Information Report (PIR) that are filed as part of the entity's franchise tax report. ...
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.
Reports: Nonprofit corporation periodic report (Form 802) $5*; 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.