IA registered agent
Iowa. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Iowa code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Iowa does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... 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. (2) ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.504
The Iowa annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year Iowa wants a form and a fee to keep your company on the list. The fee is below. Not paying it is in keeping with the rest of this page, or whatever.
Yearly report, LLC
$30 a year, give or take nothing.
... company ... b. The fee for an electronic filing through the secretary ...
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, corporation
$60 a year, give or take nothing.
ad. Biennial report .... $ 60
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code 490.122(1)(ad) (Iowa Code 2026)
What Iowa had in mind
What is required
The Iowa code, more or less word for word:
... (2) A domestic or foreign corporation or eligible entity whose ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.501(1)(b)
What Iowa 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
... or registered office in this state for sixty days or more. 4. The secretary of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.1420
Dissolved, administratively
... a place of business in this state for sixty days or more. 4. The secretary of state has not been notified within sixty days that the limited liability company's registered agent or place ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 489.708
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... without a registered agent or registered office in this state for sixty days or more. d. The secretary of state has not been notified within sixty days that ...
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 business ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.1502(2)
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
... reinstatement following administrative dissolution ... .. $ 5
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.122(1)(s)
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.