Mississippi Foreign Registration / Corporations
Mississippi F0002, the foreign corporation certificate of authority
A foreign corporation applies for authority in Mississippi on the Application for Certificate of Authority, entry F0002 on the fee schedule, and the fee is $500 for a profit corporation or $100 for a nonprofit. A home-state certificate dated within six months and a Mississippi agent go with it. We prepare the filing for $199.
The corporation filing at a glance
- Title
- Application for Certificate of Authority
- Schedule ID
- F0002
- Profit corporation
- $500
- Nonprofit corporation
- $100
- Home paper
- Certificate of good standing or existence, dated within six months
- Agent
- A Mississippi agent at a street address
- Yearly report
- Profit corporations, $25, due April 15
- Filed with
- Mississippi Secretary of State, Business Services
Which entities use F0002?
The fee schedule has one entry for both kinds of corporation: the Application for Certificate of Authority, $500 profit and $100 nonprofit. A foreign LLC does not use it; the LLC registers on its own F0200. Foreign limited partnerships and limited liability partnerships have their own entries at $250 and $250.
What Mississippi asks of a foreign corporation
The Secretary of State's guide treats every foreign company alike: give basic information about the company, a certificate of good standing or existence from the state of formation, and an agent whose street address is in Mississippi. The certificate has to be dated within the last six months. Beyond that, the guide's employee-days rule and the warning about contractors apply to corporations the same way they apply to LLCs. For the statutory list of activities that do not count, see the trigger page for the LLC list. A corporation that has to name a new Mississippi agent between filings uses F0009, priced at $25; when only the agent's address or the registered office moves, the $10 statement of change does it.
Foreign corporation fees on the Mississippi schedules
| Filing | ID | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| Certificate of authority, profit | F0002 | $500 |
| Certificate of authority, nonprofit | F0002 | $100 |
| Amended certificate of authority | F0030 | $50 |
| Certificate of withdrawal | F0015 | $25 |
| Reinstatement after dissolution or revocation | F0022 | $100 |
| Reserved corporate name | F0017 | $50 |
| Statement of change of agent or office | F0010 | $10 |
| Change of agent address, per company | F0122 | $10 |
| Nonprofit status report | F0088 | $25 |
Resignation of an agent costs no fee. A profit corporation's annual report, F0008, is $25 each year.
Worked totals for corporations
| Situation | Mississippi fees | How it adds up |
|---|---|---|
| Profit corporation, authority only | $500 | $500 |
| Profit corporation, authority then an amendment | $550 | $500 + $50 |
| Profit corporation, authority then withdrawal | $525 | $500 + $25 |
| Nonprofit, authority only | $100 | $100 |
| Nonprofit, authority then withdrawal | $125 | $100 + $25 |
Nonprofits and the May 15 report
Every nonprofit corporation registered with the Secretary of State files an annual report, and a foreign nonprofit can ask us which fee applies to its own. It is due on or before May 15 each year, a missed one leads to administrative dissolution, and it is separate from the annual charity registration that organizations soliciting contributions file with the Charities Division.
Yearly report for a profit corporation
Each year a foreign profit corporation reports online by April 15, the same date as an LLC, and pays $25. File it through the Secretary of State's own system. The office has warned that third-party mailers imitate its notices and ask for a fee, and that it did not authorize them.
Changing the name, agent or office
The fee schedule lists an Application for Amended Certificate of Authority at $50, a statement changing the agent or the office at $10, and an agent's address change at $10 per company. A new corporate name goes on the amended certificate; a new agent or office needs only the statement. We prepare whichever one the change calls for.
Withdrawing a corporation
A foreign corporation leaves Mississippi on the schedule's certificate of withdrawal application, F0015, for $25. A nonprofit uses the same filing. File any report that is due before the withdrawal goes in.
Reinstatement
A foreign corporation whose authority ended by dissolution or revocation applies for reinstatement for $100, on F0022. If a lapsed corporation orders from us, we start from F0022 instead of a new F0002.
How we prepare a corporation filing
You tell us the entity type
Profit or nonprofit decides the fee.
We check the home certificate
It has to be dated within six months.
We name the agent
A street address in Mississippi.
We prepare F0002
From your answers, for review and signature.
We file it
Through the online system, with the state fee.
Registered agent: first year included, then $149 a year
$199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.
Corporation questions
Why is the corporation fee higher than the LLC fee?
The schedule sets $500 for a profit corporation against $250 for an LLC, on separate forms under separate statutes.
What do nonprofits pay?
$100 for the certificate of authority. The yearly nonprofit report is due May 15; ask us for its current fee.
Does the daily charge apply to corporations?
The daily add-on is written into the LLC statute's fee section, for foreign LLCs.
Which statute governs corporations?
The Mississippi Business Corporation Act.
Our fee and Mississippi's
Register before the days add up
Mississippi$199
+ $250 Mississippi fee
- Your answers turned into the Mississippi foreign LLC application
- Your formation-state certificate held up against the age limit
- An agent at a Mississippi street address, from us or from you
- The registration as filed, delivered to you
- Renewal: after the first year, the agent service renews at $149 a year
The state portion is $250. Checkout lists it on its own line. $199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.
Sources
- Mississippi Secretary of State, business filing fee schedule
- Mississippi Limited Liability Company Act (Secretary of State copy)
- Start Your Business in Mississippi, registering foreign companies
- Mississippi Secretary of State, business FAQs
- Mississippi Secretary of State, annual reports
- Mississippi Secretary of State, services and fees schedule
- Mississippi Secretary of State, new nonprofit annual report requirement
- Mississippi Secretary of State, warning about misleading annual report mailers
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