MA registered agent
Massachusetts. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Massachusetts code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Massachusetts does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... agent refuses to act as such, shall be deemed to have appointed the secretary of state and his successor in office to be its true and ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 15.10(b)-(d); see also c. 156C, § 54(b)
The Massachusetts annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year Massachusetts 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
$500 a year, give or take nothing.
... the filing of the annual report required by subsection (c) shall be ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MGL c.156C s.12(d)
Yearly report, corporation
$125 a year, give or take nothing.
... Report $125.00; $150 if not filed timely ($100 if filed electronically)
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Secretary of the Commonwealth, Corporations Division Filing Fees - Domestic Profit and Professional Corporations
What Massachusetts had in mind
What is required
The Massachusetts code, more or less word for word:
... any of the following individuals or entities whose business office is also the registered office of the corporation: (i) an individual, including the secretary or another officer ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 5.01; see also c. 156C, § 5(2)
What Massachusetts 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
... of state or the filing of any tax returns or the payment of any taxes under chapter 62C or chapter 63 of the General Laws for ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 14.20; procedure § 14.21
Locked out of the courthouse
... the secretary of state for filing the certificate required by section 15.03 shall not maintain a proceeding in any court ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 15.02(a)
A penalty, in dollars
... such failure shall continue, be fined not more than five hundred dollars. ... no ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156C, § 54(a)
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 reinstatement to such terms and conditions, including the payment of reasonable fees, as ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 14.22(c)
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.