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
... of such resident agent ... and every foreign corporation whose resident agent refuses to act as such, shall be deemed to have appointed the secretary of state and his successor in office to be ...
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.
... 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.
... $125.00; $150 if not filed timely ($100 if filed ...
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:
... (ii) a domestic corporation or not-for-profit domestic corporation; or (iii) a foreign corporation or not-for-profit foreign corporation qualified to do business in this commonwealth.
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
The secretary of state may commence a proceeding under section 14.21 to dissolve a corporation administratively if: (a) the corporation has failed to comply with the provisions of law requiring the filing of reports with the secretary 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 2 or more consecutive years; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 14.20; procedure § 14.21
Locked out of the courthouse
... the commonwealth without delivering to the secretary of state for filing the certificate required by section 15.03 shall not maintain a proceeding in any court in the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 15.02(a)
A penalty, in dollars
A foreign limited liability company doing business in the commonwealth which fails to register with the state secretary shall, for each year that such failure shall continue, be fined not more than five hundred dollars. ...
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 in his judgment ...
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.