TX registered agent
Texas. $19 a year. Final markdown.
Texas makes every company on its books name a registered agent with a street address in the state. What the state wants is quoted below. What we supply comes after it. Short section.
Lawsuits, rerouted
Service, rerouted
The secretary of state is an agent of an entity for purposes of service of process, notice, or demand on the entity if: (1) the entity is a filing entity or a foreign filing entity and: (A) the entity fails to appoint or does not maintain a registered agent in this state; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 5.251
What Texas charges when the agent is us
The state's remedies for a company whose agent does not answer. Quoted. Priced by the state, not by us.
Pulled from the shelf by the state
The secretary of state may terminate a filing entity's existence if the secretary finds that: (1) the entity has failed to, and, before the 91st day after the date notice was mailed has not corrected the entity's failure to: (A) file a report within the period required by law or pay a fee or penalty prescribed by law when due and payable; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 11.251(b)(1)(B)
Out-of-state: authority revoked
The secretary of state may revoke a foreign filing entity's registration if the secretary of state finds that: (1) the entity has failed to, and, before the 91st day after the date notice was mailed, has not corrected the entity's failure to: (A) file a report within the period required by law or pay a fee or penalty prescribed by law when due and payable; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.101(b)(1)(B)
Courthouse: closed to you
... action in the entity's name, on a cause of action that arises out of the transaction of business in this state unless the foreign filing entity is registered in accordance with this chapter.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.051(b)
Penalty, priced
A foreign filing entity that transacts business in this state and is not registered under this chapter is liable to this state for a civil penalty in an amount equal to all: (1) fees and taxes that would have been imposed by law on the entity had the entity registered when first required and filed all reports required by law; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.052(a)
Additional
The amount of the late filing fee is an amount equal to the product of the amount of the registration fee for the foreign filing entity multiplied by the number of calendar years that the entity transacted business in this state without being registered. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 9.054
Additional
Sections 4.007 and 4.008 apply with respect to a false statement in a registered agent filing that names a person the registered agent of a represented entity without the person's consent. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code §§ 5.207, 4.008(b)
The Texas annual report. Also reduced.
Yearly, LLC
Texas has no annual report fee, per the guidance quoted below. Nothing on that shelf.
... and LLCs from the entity's Public Information Report (PIR) that are filed as part of the entity's franchise tax report. PIRs list the names and ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: TX SOS Management and Ownership FAQs #3
Yearly, corporation
Texas has no annual report fee, per the guidance quoted below. Nothing on that shelf.
Reports: Nonprofit corporation periodic report (Form 802) $5*; Annual statement of a professional association (Form 803) $35; Limited partnership periodic report (Form 804) $50*
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: TX SOS SOSDirect Fee Schedule, 'Reports' section
What the tag says in Texas
The tag
Straight off the Texas code:
... or (B) an organization, other than the filing entity or foreign filing entity to be represented, that: (i) is registered or authorized to do business in this state; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 5.201(b)-(c)
The price to come back
The price to come back
... corporation or registration as a foreign corporation after involuntary termination or revocation, $75;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 4.152(14)
What we supply
Nothing. Marked down from nothing.
Statute text captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01, checked against the code on 2026-08-10. Codes change. Tags do not.