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 (2) the entity is a foreign filing entity and: (A) the entity's registration to do business under this code is revoked; ...
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.
... collects management information for corporations and LLCs from the entity's Public Information Report (PIR) that are filed as part of the entity's ...
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.
Reports: Nonprofit corporation periodic report (Form 802) $5*; Annual statement of a professional association (Form 803) $35; Limited partnership periodic report (Form 804) $50*
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:
... and (ii) has consented in a written or electronic form to be developed by the office of the secretary of state to serve as the registered agent of the entity; ...
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
The secretary of state may terminate a filing entity's existence if the secretary finds that: (1) the entity has failed to, and, before the 91st day after 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 § 11.251(b)(1)(B)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
The secretary of state may revoke a foreign filing entity's registration if the secretary of state finds that: (1) the entity has failed to, and, before the 91st day after 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
... proceeding in a court of this state, brought 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 out of the transaction of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.051(b)
A penalty, in dollars
A foreign filing entity that transacts business in this state and is not registered under this chapter is liable to this state for a civil penalty in an amount equal to all: (1) fees and taxes that would have been imposed by law on the entity had the entity registered when first required and filed all reports required by law; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.052(a)
Also, apparently
The amount of the late filing fee is an amount equal to the product of the amount of the registration fee for the foreign filing entity multiplied by the number of calendar years that the entity transacted business in this state without being registered. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.054
Also, apparently
Sections 4.007 and 4.008 apply with respect to a false statement in a registered agent filing that names a person the registered agent of a represented entity without the person's consent. ...
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
... for reinstatement of a corporation or registration as a foreign corporation after involuntary ...
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.