MO registered agent
Missouri registered agent, $19, same as every other aisle
Missouri 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 Missouri puts on the label
The label
Straight from the Missouri code, no markdown:
... (2) A registered agent, which agent may be either an individual, resident in this state, whose business office is identical with such registered office, or a corporation authorized to transact business in this state having a business office identical with such registered office.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.370.1; see also RSMo 347.030.1 (LLCs)
The Missouri annual report, priced by the state, skippable by you
Every year Missouri 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
Missouri has no annual report fee on the tag, per the guidance quoted below. Nothing to leave in the cart.
... liability companies have to file an annual report? ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: Missouri Secretary of State - Frequently Asked Questions, Limited Liability Companies
Annual report tag, corporation
$20 a year, tax not included.
Annual Registration Report Filed Timely (on-line) ... 20.00
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/Business/fees.pdf
The restocking fee, as charged by Missouri
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
... (6) The corporation does not notify the secretary of state within thirty days that its registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its registered office has been discontinued;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.484(5)-(6); procedure at RSMo 351.486
Also on the shelf
... under sections 351.478 and 351.482, and any officer or director who conducts business on behalf of a corporation so dissolved except as provided in this section shall be personally liable for any ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.486.3
Pulled from the shelf by the state
... agent, by failing to pay the required filing fees ... Thirty days before such cancellation shall take effect, the secretary shall notify the limited liability company with written notice, either ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 347.183(2)-(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
... In the event that any process, notice, or demand is served on the secretary of state, he shall immediately cause a copy thereof to be forwarded by registered mail, addressed to the corporation at its registered office in this state.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.380.1; see also RSMo 347.033.3 (LLCs)
The price of getting the company back
Reinstatement, the price on the tag
... the amount of fifty dollars plus any delinquent fees, penalties, and charges that might have ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.488.1(5)
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.