Texas Registered Agent

Yes, you can be your own registered agent in Texas. However, after considering the requirements most business owners elect to hire a registered agent service instead. Why? Well although being your own registered agent is free, a Texas registered agent’s name and address becomes part of the public record. Additionally, a company’s registered agent is required to be available to accept service of process during normal business hours five days a week.

We accept and scan all of our Texas clients’ documents on-site at our registered office in Austin, TX.

Yes! Each year, you have to file the Texas Franchise Tax with the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. There are lots of penalties and fees if your Franchise Tax is past due, so you don’t want to forget to file. We always send reminders based on the May 15 Texas Franchise Tax due date. Our sophisticated business compliance reminder system does the work for you on the back end, providing you not only with a reminder, but the forms to file populated with your info on them. This is all included with our Texas Registered Agent Service.

Definitely! We’re the only national registered agent service that allows our clients to list our address for everything when you’re doing a filing to keep your private address out of public records.

We don’t want ALL of your business mail. It’s not what we do. And it wouldn’t serve you well. You wouldn’t have a unique address or suite number. Any mail we receive on your behalf would come to Northwest Registered Agent, care of you.

But we understand that businesses and clients sometimes reach out to you through your registered agent, aka us. That’s why we give you five FREE scans of regular business mail a year. You can request any additional documents to be forwarded at a per document rate of $15.

You should hire us first and then form your LLC or corporation. The Texas Secretary of State will reject your business registration filing if you don’t already have a registered agent. You’ll instantly find all the forms and instructions you need to complete your filing after you place an order.

Serving a registered agent is legal proof of notification. Whether you receive the documents your Texas registered agent signs for or not, you’ve legally been notified once they accept the documents. This is a serious responsibility and we don’t take it lightly. Here’s how it works:

• A process server, the county sheriff, or any third party will walk into our office and hand us the documents (service of process), and then we sign for them.
• The process server then gives an affidavit (a receipt of service) to the court which states that they served us.
• If you hire us, long before the server hands in their affidavit to the court, you’ll receive your documents. That’s because we  scan them to your online account within minutes of accepting service of process.

You can do a Texas business name search on the state’s website.

•  Type in the company name you are trying to look up.
•  Look at the TX registered agent name and registered office street address.

If you want to legally notify someone through their Texas registered agent service, just send a certified letter directly to the registered agent name and registered office address.

In Texas, to resign as a registered agent, you need to submit two copies of the Resignation of Registered Agent to the Texas Secretary of State, Corporations Division. For a more detailed walkthrough, you can refer to our guide on how to resign as a registered agent in Texas.