MI registered agent
Michigan registered agent, $19, same as every other aisle
Michigan 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 Michigan puts on the label
The label
Straight from the Michigan code, no markdown:
... corporation or limited liability company authorized to transact business ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.1241; see also MCL 450.4207(1)
The Michigan annual report, priced by the state, skippable by you
Every year Michigan 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
$25 a year, tax not included.
... $15.00 if paid after September 30, 2027. Through September 30, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.5101(1)(g) (Am. 2023, Act 133)
Annual report tag, corporation
$25 a year, tax not included.
... $15.00 if paid after September 30, 2027. Before October 1, 2027, the fee is $25.00.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.2060(1)(u) (Am. 2023, Act 135)
The restocking fee, as charged by Michigan
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.
Out-of-state authority, returned
... (b) The corporation, after changing its registered office or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.2041(a)-(b); procedure MCL 450.2042
Pulled from the shelf by the state
... period of 2 years from the date on which the annual report or filing fee was due, the corporation is automatically dissolved 60 days after the expiration of the 2-year ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.1922(1)
Penalty, priced by the state
... to its liability for the fee, is subject to a penalty of $10.00 for each month or part of a month that ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.1921(1)
Also on the shelf
... and the administrator shall not accept for filing any document submitted by the limited liability company other than a certificate of restoration of good ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.4207a(3)
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
... exercise of reasonable diligence, service of process may be made by delivering ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.4207(4)
The price of getting the company back
Reinstatement, the price on the tag
... for which they were not filed and paid, and for every subsequent intervening year, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: MCL 450.1925(1); MCL 450.5101(1)(h)
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.