MO registered agent
Missouri. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Missouri code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Missouri does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
In the event that a corporation shall fail to appoint or maintain a registered agent in this state, then the secretary of state as long as such default exists shall be automatically appointed as an agent of such corporation upon whom any process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served upon the corporation may be served. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.380.1; see also RSMo 347.033.3 (LLCs)
The Missouri annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year Missouri 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
Missouri does not charge for the yearly report, according to the guidance quoted below. So there is nothing to not pay. Fine.
... limited liability companies have to file an annual report? ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Missouri Secretary of State - Frequently Asked Questions, Limited Liability Companies
Yearly report, corporation
$20 a year, give or take nothing.
Annual Registration Report Filed Timely (on-line) ... 20.00
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/Business/fees.pdf
What Missouri had in mind
What is required
The Missouri code, more or less word for word:
Each corporation shall have and continuously maintain in this state: (1) A registered office which may be, but need not be, the same as its place of business; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.370.1; see also RSMo 347.030.1 (LLCs)
What Missouri 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 pursuant to section 351.486 to dissolve a corporation administratively if: ... (5) The corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for thirty days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.484(5)-(6); procedure at RSMo 351.486
Also, apparently
... to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under section 351.476 and notify claimants under sections 351.478 and 351.482, and any officer or director who conducts business on behalf ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.486.3
Dissolved, administratively
... of sections 347.010 to 347.187 by failing to file required documents under sections 347.010 to 347.187, by failing to maintain a registered agent, by failing to pay the required filing ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 347.183(2)-(3)
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
... fee in the amount of fifty dollars plus any delinquent fees, penalties, and ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.488.1(5)
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.