TX registered agent
Texas. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Texas code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Texas does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... or (B) the registered agent of the entity cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the registered office of the entity; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 5.251
The Texas annual report, which you could also not do
Yearly report, LLC
Texas does not charge for the yearly report, according to the guidance quoted below. So there is nothing to not pay. Fine.
... for corporations and LLCs from the entity's Public Information Report (PIR) that ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: TX SOS Management and Ownership FAQs #3
Yearly report, corporation
Texas does not charge for the yearly report, according to the guidance quoted below. So there is nothing to not pay. Fine.
... (Form 802) $5*; Annual statement of a professional association (Form 803) $35; Limited partnership periodic ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: TX SOS SOSDirect Fee Schedule, 'Reports' section
What Texas had in mind
What is required
The Texas code, more or less word for word:
... the filing entity or foreign filing entity to be represented, that: (i) is registered or authorized ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 5.201(b)-(c)
What Texas 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
... notice was mailed has not corrected the entity's failure to: (A) file a report within the period required by law or pay a fee or penalty prescribed by ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 11.251(b)(1)(B)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... the date notice was mailed, has not corrected the entity's failure to: (A) file a report within the period required by law or pay a fee or penalty prescribed by law when due and payable; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.101(b)(1)(B)
Locked out of the courthouse
... either directly by the entity or in the form of a derivative action in the entity's name, on a cause of action that arises ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.051(b)
A penalty, in dollars
... amount equal to all: (1) fees and taxes that would have been imposed by law on the entity had the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.052(a)
Also, apparently
... the foreign filing entity multiplied by the number of calendar years that the entity transacted business in this state without being ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.054
Also, apparently
... agent of a represented entity without the person's consent. ... An offense ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code §§ 5.207, 4.008(b)
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
... application for reinstatement of a corporation or registration as a foreign corporation after involuntary termination or revocation, $75;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 4.152(14)
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.