MN registered agent
Registered agent service in Minnesota, $37 per year, within tolerance
Minnesota expects each company on its register to keep a registered agent at a street address inside the state. The expectation is set out below in the state's own language. Our performance against it is rated further down. The rating has been consistent.
The Minnesota annual report, an average obligation
Annual report charge, LLC
Minnesota accepts the annual report at no charge. File it or do not. Either meets the standard we set.
no fee is required to file an annual renewal
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. 322C.0208
Annual report charge, corporation
Minnesota accepts the annual report at no charge. File it or do not. Either meets the standard we set.
Annual Renewal $0 $0
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: MN SOS Business Filing & Certification Fee Schedule, Business Corporation (Domestic) - Chapter 302A
Expectations set by Minnesota
Expectation
As set out in the Minnesota code:
... A business entity formed under the laws of another jurisdiction must designate a registered agent when registering to do business in Minnesota. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 5.36, subd. 2; see also §§ 302A.121, 322C.0113
Performance against expectations
Does not meet. Consistently. We regard the consistency as the achievement.
Delivery of papers when the desk is unattended
Service by other means
... does not appoint or maintain an agent for service of process in this state or the agent for service of process cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the agent's street address, the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Minn. Stat. § 322C.0116, subd. 2; see also §§ 5.25, subds. 1, 3-4; 302A.901, subd. 1
Corrective action available to Minnesota
Where an agent performs at our level, the state applies the following. Quoted from the code without adjustment, because adjusting it would take effort we have allocated elsewhere.
Additionally
... 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
Additionally
... (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)
Dissolution, administrative
... (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
Return to good standing, priced
Charge to return to good standing
... (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)
Quoted statutory text was captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and re-checked against the code on 2026-08-10. Statutes are revised at their own pace. This page is revised at ours.