MN registered agent
Minnesota registered agent, $19, same as every other aisle
Minnesota 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 Minnesota puts on the label
The label
Straight from the Minnesota code, no markdown:
... The registered agent must maintain a business office that is identical with the registered office.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 5.36, subd. 2; see also §§ 302A.121, 322C.0113
The Minnesota annual report, priced by the state, skippable by you
Annual report tag, LLC
Minnesota charges nothing for the annual report. Skip it anyway. Free things still take up shelf space.
no fee is required to file an annual renewal
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. 322C.0208
Annual report tag, corporation
Minnesota charges nothing for the annual report. Skip it anyway. Free things still take up shelf space.
Annual Renewal $0 $0
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: MN SOS Business Filing & Certification Fee Schedule, Business Corporation (Domestic) - Chapter 302A
The restocking fee, as charged by Minnesota
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.
Also on the shelf
... or (3) if no agent, officer, manager, or general partner can be found at the address on file with the secretary of state, the secretary of state as provided in this section.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 5.25, subd. 1
Also on the shelf
... (2) whenever a registered agent cannot be found at its registered office in this state ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 5.25, subd. 4(a)
Pulled from the shelf by the state
... (b) If the corporation has not filed the renewal during any calendar year, the secretary of state must issue a certificate of administrative dissolution ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 302A.821, subd. 4; see also § 322C.0705
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
... or the agent for service of process cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the agent's street address, the secretary of state is an agent of the company upon whom process, notice, or demand ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 322C.0116, subd. 2; see also §§ 5.25, subds. 1, 3-4; 302A.901, subd. 1
The price of getting the company back
Reinstatement, the price on the tag
... (2) validates contracts or other acts within the authority of the articles ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 302A.821, subd. 4(c); § 322C.0706(a)
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.