MO registered agent
Registered agent service in Missouri, $37 per year, within tolerance
Missouri 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 Missouri annual report, an average obligation
Missouri 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
Missouri bills no annual report fee, per the guidance quoted below. There is nothing to economize on here, which we found unremarkable.
... limited 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 charge, corporation
$20 per year. Average.
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
Expectations set by Missouri
Expectation
As set out in the Missouri code:
... (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)
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
... 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)
Corrective action available to Missouri
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
... (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
Additionally
... except that necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under section 351.476 and notify claimants under sections 351.478 and 351.482, and any officer or director who conducts ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.486.3
Dissolution, administrative
... fails to comply with the provisions of sections 347.010 to 347.187 by failing to file required documents under sections 347.010 to 347.187, by failing to maintain a registered agent, by failing ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 347.183(2)-(3)
Return to good standing, priced
Charge to return to good standing
... a reinstatement fee in the amount of fifty dollars plus any delinquent fees, penalties, and ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSMo 351.488.1(5)
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.