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:
... and (b) A registered agent, which must be: 1. An individual who resides in this state whose business address is identical to the address of the registered office; 2. ...
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
The department may dissolve a corporation administratively if the corporation does not: ... (c) Appoint and maintain a registered agent and registered office as required by s. 607.0501; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.1420(1)(c), (4); sec. 605.0714(1)(c)
Locked out of the courthouse
... the corporation complies with this section, pays to the department any amounts required under this chapter, and, to the extent ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction, pays to the department ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.0501(6)-(7); sec. 605.0113(5)
A penalty, in dollars
... will be liable to this state for $500 for each year, or part of a year, during which the corporation ... fails to comply with these requirements ... The failure to comply timely or fully with ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Fla. Stat. sec. 607.0505(1)(b)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
A certificate of authority of a foreign corporation to transact business in this state may be revoked by the department if: ... (c) The foreign corporation does not appoint and maintain a registered agent as required by s. 607.1507; ...
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
A corporation that is administratively dissolved under s. 607.1420 ... may apply to the department for reinstatement at any time after the effective date of dissolution. ...
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.