IN registered agent
Indiana. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Indiana code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Indiana 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: IC 23-0.5-4-10(b)
The Indiana annual report, which you could also not do
incFACTS has not confirmed the Indiana annual report fee yet. We were not going to either.
What Indiana had in mind
What is required
The Indiana code, more or less word for word:
... be an individual, a general partnership, a domestic filing entity, or a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-4-3(a)
What Indiana 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 2 of this chapter to dissolve a domestic filing entity administratively if the entity does not: ... (3) have a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) consecutive days; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-6-1
Authority revoked, foreign companies
The secretary of state may revoke the registration of a registered foreign entity, business trust, or agricultural cooperative if: ... (3) the entity does not have a registered agent as required by IC 23-0.5-4-1; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-5-11(a)
Locked out of the courthouse
... in Indiana may not maintain an action or proceeding in this state unless it is registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-5-2(b)
A penalty, in dollars
A foreign entity is liable for a civil penalty of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) if it transacts business in Indiana without a certificate of authority. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-5-2(f)
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: IC 23-0.5-6-3(d)
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.