WI registered agent
Wisconsin. $17 a year. Straight from the bowl.
Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin 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
... (4) The corporation does not notify the department within one year that its registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered agent has resigned or that its registered office has been discontinued.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1420(3)-(4)
Dissolved by the state, administratively
... (d) The company does not notify the department within one year that its registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its registered office has been discontinued.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 183.0708(1)(c)-(d)
Also in the water
... the exclusive use of its corporate name terminates on the effective date of its ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1421(4)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... (d) The foreign corporation does not notify the department under s. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1530(1)(c)-(d)
Locked out of the courthouse
... 180.1501, may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until it obtains a certificate of authority.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1502(1)
A civil penalty, in dollars
... All fees and other charges that would have been imposed by this chapter on the foreign corporation had it duly applied for and received a certificate of authority ... 2. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1502(5)(a)
How much of that we do
None of it. It settled.
What Wisconsin asked for in the first place
What the state asked for
The Wisconsin code, undiluted:
... (2m) A registered agent for a corporation must have an e-mail address and a place of business or activity in this state.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.0501(1m)-(2m); § 183.0115
The Wisconsin annual report, which can also be left to settle
Wisconsin 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
$25 each year, down the drain.
... Annual report of a domestic limited liability company, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. s. 183.0122(2)(a)17.
Yearly report fee for a corporation
$25 each year, down the drain.
180.0122(1m)(x) Annual report of a domestic corporation, ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/180/I/0122
The refill fee
incFACTS has not verified the Wisconsin reinstatement fee. Something is floating over that entry and we did not fish it out.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, rerouted
... If process, notice, or demand in an action cannot be served on a corporation pursuant to sub. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.0504(2)-(3)
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.