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
2. If a corporation has no registered agent, or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the corporation may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the secretary at the corporation's principal office. ... 3. a. ...
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.
40.7(2) A limited liability company ... b. 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, 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:
A registered agent, which may be any of the following: (1) An individual who resides in this state and whose business office is identical with the registered office. ...
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
The secretary of state may commence a proceeding under section 490.1421 to dissolve a corporation administratively, if any of the following apply: ... 3. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.1420
Dissolved, administratively
The secretary of state may commence a proceeding under section 489.709 to dissolve a limited liability company administratively, if any of the following apply: ... 3. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 489.708
Authority revoked, foreign companies
The secretary of state may terminate the registration of a registered foreign corporation in the manner provided in subsections 2 and 3, if any of the following applies: ... c. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.1511(1)
Locked out of the courthouse
... business in this state shall not maintain a proceeding in any court of this state until it is registered ...
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
... following administrative dissolution ...
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.