MS registered agent
Registered agent service in Mississippi, $37 per year, within tolerance
Mississippi 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 Mississippi annual report, an average obligation
Mississippi bills each company annually to remain on the register. The amount is below. Paying it is standard practice. Not paying it is also a practice, and the rest of this page describes it.
Annual report charge, LLC
Mississippi accepts the annual report at no charge. File it or do not. Either meets the standard we set.
F0108 MS LLC Annual Report $0
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://www.sos.ms.gov/content/documents/Business/FeeSchedule.pdf
Annual report charge, corporation
$25 per year. Average.
F0008 Annual Report $25
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://www.sos.ms.gov/content/documents/Business/FeeSchedule.pdf
Expectations set by Mississippi
Expectation
As set out in the Mississippi code:
... that serves in this state as the agent for service of process of an entity. ... Whenever a provision of this chapter requires that a filing state an address, the filing must ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. §§ 79-35-2(13), 79-35-4
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
... of the entity will be treated as the entity's agent for service of process who may be served pursuant to the provisions ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-35-13(b)
Corrective action available to Mississippi
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.
Dissolution, administrative
... (3) The corporation is without a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) days or more; (4) The corporation does not notify the Secretary of State within sixty (60) ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-4-14.20(3)-(4); procedure at § 79-4-14.21
Dissolution, administrative
... The limited liability company is without a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) days or more; (d) The limited liability company does not notify the Secretary of State ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-29-821(c)-(d); procedure at § 79-29-823
Standing in court withdrawn
... been administratively dissolved may not maintain any action, suit ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-4-14.21(f)
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... (3) The foreign corporation is without a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) days or more; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-4-15.30(3)-(4); procedure at § 79-4-15.31
Return to good standing, priced
Charge to return to good standing
... applicable statutory reinstatement requirements and unless it provides to the Secretary of State with ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Miss. Code Ann. § 79-35-19(2)
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.