MA registered agent
Massachusetts registered agent, $19, same as every other aisle
Massachusetts makes every corporation and LLC keep a registered agent at a street address inside the state, and it wrote down what that agent has to do. The writing is quoted below. Our contribution to it is a price tag.
What Massachusetts puts on the label
The label
Straight from the Massachusetts code, no markdown:
... (ii) a domestic corporation or not-for-profit domestic corporation; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 5.01; see also c. 156C, § 5(2)
The Massachusetts annual report, priced by the state, skippable by you
Every year Massachusetts asks for a payment to keep the company on its shelf. The tag is below. Leaving it in the cart is a saving in exactly the way we are.
Annual report tag, LLC
$500 a year, tax not included.
... of the annual report required by subsection (c) shall be five hundred ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MGL c.156C s.12(d)
Annual report tag, corporation
$125 a year, tax not included.
... $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
The restocking fee, as charged by Massachusetts
When the agent on file is an empty shelf, the state has a checklist. It is quoted here without our commentary, which would only have been about the price.
Pulled from the shelf by the state
... 63 of the General Laws for 2 or more consecutive years; or (b) the secretary ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 14.20; procedure § 14.21
No entry to the courthouse
... certificate required by section 15.03 shall not maintain a proceeding in any court in the commonwealth until the certificate is delivered and ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 15.02(a)
Penalty, priced by the state
... no action shall be maintained or recovery had by the foreign limited liability company in any of the courts of the commonwealth as long as such failure continues.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156C, § 54(a)
Our end of the deal
Nineteen dollars. That was our end. The rest of the deal is on backorder.
Lawsuits, when the aisle is empty
Service, rerouted
... to be its true and lawful attorney upon whom all lawful process in any action or proceeding may be served so long as ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 15.10(b)-(d); see also c. 156C, § 54(b)
The price of getting the company back
Reinstatement, the price on the tag
... terms and conditions, including the payment of reasonable fees, as in his judgment the public interest ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: M.G.L. c. 156D, § 14.22(c)
Statute text captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01, then compared with the state's own text on 2026-08-10. Codes get restocked. This page does not.