FL registered agent
Florida. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Florida code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Florida does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Florida has a fallback for serving a company whose agent is not around. It is in a different chapter. We did not get that far.
The Florida annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year Florida wants a form and a fee to keep your company on the list. The fee is below. Not paying it is in keeping with the rest of this page, or whatever.
Yearly report, LLC
$138.75 a year, give or take nothing.
Annual Report (with supplemental fee) $138.75
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. s. 605.0213 ('For filing an annual report, $50') + s. 607.193 ('an annual supplemental corporate fee of $88.75')
Yearly report, corporation
$150 a year, give or take nothing.
Profit Annual Report (with supplemental fee) $150.00
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. s. 607.0122 ('Annual report: $61.25.') + s. 607.193 ($88.75 supplemental corporate fee)
What Florida had in mind
What is required
The Florida code, more or less word for word:
... is identical to the address of the registered office; 2. Another domestic entity that is an authorized entity and whose business address is identical to the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.0501(1); sec. 605.0113(1), (6)
What Florida does next
The state keeps a list of things it does to a company whose agent is not really there. Here is the list, pasted, unedited, because editing it would be effort.
Dissolved, administratively
... registered agent and registered office as required by s. 607.0501; (d) Deliver for filing a statement of change under s. 607.0502 within ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.1420(1)(c), (4); sec. 605.0714(1)(c)
Locked out of the courthouse
... to the department any amounts required under this chapter, and, to the extent ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction, pays to the department a penalty ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.0501(6)-(7); sec. 605.0113(5)
A penalty, in dollars
... or part of a year, during which the corporation ... fails to comply with these requirements ... The failure to comply timely or fully with an order directing ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.0505(1)(b)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... appoint and maintain a registered agent as required by s. 607.1507; (d) The foreign corporation does not deliver for filing ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.1530(1)(c), (4)
How that lands with us
Lukewarm. We read it once. It did not change anything.
Coming back, if you feel like it
What coming back costs
... The corporation must submit all fees and penalties then owed by the corporation at the rates provided by law at the time the corporation applies for reinstatement ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.1422(1); sec. 607.0122(13); sec. 605.0213(6)
The quoted passages were captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and compared to the live code on 2026-08-10. Laws get amended. This page mostly does not.