ID registered agent
Idaho. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Idaho code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Idaho does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... (2) The date shown on the return receipt, if signed by the entity; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Idaho Code § 30-21-412(b)
The Idaho annual report, which you could also not do
Yearly report, LLC
Filing in Idaho costs nothing. You could still not do it. Consistency, sort of.
(7) Annual report .... No fee
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Idaho Code 30-21-214(b)(7)
Yearly report, corporation
Filing in Idaho costs nothing. You could still not do it. Consistency, sort of.
(7) Annual report .... No fee
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Idaho Code 30-21-214(b)(7)
What Idaho had in mind
What is required
The Idaho code, more or less word for word:
"Noncommercial registered agent" means a person that is not a commercial registered agent and is: (A) An individual or domestic or foreign entity that serves in this state as the registered agent of an entity; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Idaho Code § 30-21-102(29)
What Idaho does next
The state keeps a list of things it does to a company whose agent is not really there. Here is the list, pasted, unedited, because editing it would be effort.
Dissolved, administratively
The secretary of state may commence a proceeding under section 30-21-602, Idaho Code, to dissolve a domestic filing entity administratively if the entity does not: ... (2) Have a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) consecutive days; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Idaho Code § 30-21-601
Authority revoked, foreign companies
The secretary of state may terminate the registration of a registered foreign entity in the manner provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this section if the entity does not: ... (2) Have a registered agent as required by section 30-21-402, Idaho Code; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Idaho Code § 30-21-511(a)
Locked out of the courthouse
... limited liability partnership doing business in this state may not maintain an action or proceeding in this state unless it is ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Idaho Code § 30-21-502(b)
How that lands with us
Lukewarm. We read it once. It did not change anything.
Coming back, if you feel like it
What coming back costs
... and penalties that were due to the secretary of state at the time of the entity's administrative dissolution and all fees, taxes, interest, and penalties that would have been due to the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Idaho Code § 30-21-603(b)
The quoted passages were captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and compared to the live code on 2026-08-10. Laws get amended. This page mostly does not.