IA registered agent
Iowa. $17 a year. Straight from the bowl.
Iowa makes every company it registers name a registered agent at a street address inside its borders. We start with what the state does when that agent is us, then work back up to what it asked for in the first place.
What Iowa pours on a company whose agent is us
The remedies come first on this page because they are the part that matters. Quoted from the code. We added nothing, not even water.
Dissolved by the state, administratively
... The corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for sixty days or more. 4. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.1420
Dissolved by the state, administratively
... The limited liability company is without a registered agent or the registered agent does not have a place of business in this state for sixty days or more. 4. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 489.708
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... The foreign corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for sixty days or more. d. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.1511(1)
Locked out of the courthouse
... in this state shall not maintain a proceeding in any court of this state until it is registered to do ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.1502(2)
How much of that we do
None of it. It settled.
What Iowa asked for in the first place
What the state asked for
The Iowa code, undiluted:
... (2) A domestic or foreign corporation or eligible entity whose business office is identical with the registered office and, in the case of a foreign corporation or foreign eligible entity, is registered to do business in this state.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.501(1)(b)
The Iowa annual report, which can also be left to settle
Iowa charges a yearly amount to keep a company on its books. Here it is. Leaving it unpaid saves the whole amount, in exactly the way the rest of this site saves you money.
Yearly report fee for an LLC
$30 each year, down the drain.
... The fee for an electronic filing through the secretary of state website is $30.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Admin. Code 721-40.7(2)(b) (electronic $30) and 721-40.7(2)(a) (paper $45)
Yearly report fee for a corporation
$60 each year, down the drain.
ad. Biennial report .... $ 60
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code 490.122(1)(ad) (Iowa Code 2026)
The refill fee
The refill fee
... following administrative dissolution ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.122(1)(s)
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... The secretary of state shall be an agent of the corporation upon whom process, notice, or demand may be served, if any of the following applies: (1) The process, notice, or demand cannot be served on a corporation pursuant to subsection 1 or 2. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.504
Statute text as captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and checked line by line against the state code on 2026-08-10. The code moves like water. This page sits.