Best Registered Agent Services in Mississippi

Mississippi publishes your registered agent's name and street address in a free business search. That listing is public. It is the main fact strangers can find about your company. Act as your own agent and the address they find is your home. Appoint a commercial agent and their office fills that slot instead.

Naming an agent is a promise you make about someone else. Section 79-35-5 treats the filing as your affirmation that you notified the agent, gave them a forwarding address, and got their consent. A noncommercial agent also gives a name, an address and an email address. A commercial one is named by name alone. The state already holds the rest.

Mississippi also keeps a public list of commercial registered agents. Naming one off that list is consent already given. The Secretary of State then allows that agent 14 days to file a Statement of Non-acceptance. Silence past day 14 is read as acceptance, and the filing costs nothing. Name a noncommercial agent who never agreed and section 79-35-14(b) says they are not your agent at all. They owe you no duties. Service on them still counts as service on you. That is the sting.

An agent off that list can also drop every client it holds in one filing. The Termination Statement takes effect on the 31st day. It quits for all of them. The agent has to tell each company it represents and hand the state the full list. Thirty days is the whole warning you get, which is why the age of the agent matters more here than its first year price.

What the chapter does not do is set hours. Section 79-35-14(a) opens with the words the only duties. Then it lists four. A desk staffed from nine to five is not one of them. Read the list. It is short on purpose.

Forming a brand new Mississippi LLC? Check the bundle before the price list. Bizee and Inc Authority include the first year of agent service free when they file your LLC. After that Bizee charges $149 a year and Inc Authority $249. ZenBusiness gives no free year. Its agent costs $99 for the first year and $199 a year after that.

Already have the LLC and just want a different agent? Budget for two costs, not one. Mississippi charges $10 for the Registered Agent or Office Statement of Change. Some services add a transfer fee on top. Northwest holds at $125 a year with no first year discount. Harbor Compliance opens at $99 and renews at $159.

Mississippi's calendar is short. One Annual Report, free, due April 15, filed online. No franchise tax. You are not buying a compliance dashboard in this state, you are buying a date. For formation packages, see our guide to the best LLC formation services in Mississippi.

• Year two price jumps. ZenBusiness starts at $99 and renews at $199. Harbor Compliance starts at $99 and renews at $159. Bizee and Inc Authority are free for the first year when they form your LLC, then $149 and $249. Bought on their own, those two charge the same in both years, like everyone else on this page.
• Rocket Lawyer's $374 is two products. $125 for the agent plus the $249 Plus membership it requires, the cheapest tier that qualifies.
• Swyft Filings bills by the quarter. Billed $149 every quarter, per state and per entity, so $596 a year, for one Mississippi LLC.
• The state's own switch fee. Changing your registered agent on file costs $10, and resigning as an agent costs nothing.

• Look your company up on the Secretary of State's business search and confirm the agent name and street address match what your service gave you.
• Apply for a federal EIN at IRS.gov. It is free and takes about 10 minutes.
• Open a business bank account with your Certificate of Formation and your EIN. Mississippi banks usually want both, plus your operating agreement.
• Set an April 15 reminder for the Annual Report. It costs nothing to file and everything to forget.
• Register for a sales tax permit if you sell taxable goods. That one is the Department of Revenue. Mississippi taxes retail sales at 7%.