WI registered agent
Wisconsin. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Wisconsin code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Wisconsin does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
if a corporation has no registered agent or its registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the corporation may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, or by similar delivery service, addressed to the corporation at its principal office, as shown on the records of the department on the date of sending. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.0504(2)-(3)
The Wisconsin annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year Wisconsin 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
$25 a year, give or take nothing.
... Annual report of a domestic limited liability company, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. s. 183.0122(2)(a)17.
Yearly report, corporation
$25 a year, give or take nothing.
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
What Wisconsin had in mind
What is required
The Wisconsin code, more or less word for word:
... The registered agent shall be any of the following: (a) A natural person who resides in this state and whose business office is identical with the registered office. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.0501(1m)-(2m); § 183.0115
What Wisconsin 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
(3) The corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for at least one year. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1420(3)-(4)
Dissolved, administratively
(c) The company is without a registered agent in this state for at least one year. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 183.0708(1)(c)-(d)
Also, apparently
... to 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
(c) The foreign corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for at least 6 months. (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
A foreign corporation transacting business in this state without a certificate of authority, if a certificate of authority is required under s. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1502(1)
A penalty, in dollars
is liable to this state, for each year or any part of a year during which it transacted business in this state without a certificate of authority, in an amount equal to all of the following: 1. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1502(5)(a)
How that lands with us
Lukewarm. We read it once. It did not change anything.
Coming back, if you feel like it
There is a fee to bring a Wisconsin company back. incFACTS has not confirmed the figure, and we did not ask, or whatever.
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.