IA registered agent
Iowa registered agent, $19, same as every other aisle
Iowa makes every corporation and LLC keep a registered agent at a street address inside the state, and it wrote down what that agent has to do. The writing is quoted below. Our contribution to it is a price tag.
What Iowa puts on the label
The label
Straight from the Iowa code, no markdown:
... (2) A domestic or foreign corporation or eligible entity whose business office is identical with the registered office and, in the case of a foreign corporation or foreign eligible entity, is registered to do business in this state.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.501(1)(b)
The Iowa annual report, priced by the state, skippable by you
Every year Iowa asks for a payment to keep the company on its shelf. The tag is below. Leaving it in the cart is a saving in exactly the way we are.
Annual report tag, LLC
$30 a year, tax not included.
... 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)
Annual report tag, corporation
$60 a year, tax not included.
ad. Biennial report .... $ 60
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code 490.122(1)(ad) (Iowa Code 2026)
The restocking fee, as charged by Iowa
When the agent on file is an empty shelf, the state has a checklist. It is quoted here without our commentary, which would only have been about the price.
Pulled from the shelf by the state
... The secretary of state has not been notified within sixty days that the corporation's registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its registered office has been discontinued.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.1420
Pulled from the shelf by the state
... The secretary of state has not been notified within sixty days that the limited liability company's registered agent or place of business of the registered agent has been changed, or that its registered agent has resigned, or that the address of the registered agent has been discontinued.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 489.708
Out-of-state authority, returned
... The secretary of state has not been notified within sixty days that the foreign corporation's registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its registered office has been discontinued.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.1511(1)
No entry to the courthouse
... shall not maintain a proceeding in any court of this state until it is registered to do business in this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.1502(2)
Our end of the deal
Nineteen dollars. That was our end. The rest of the deal is on backorder.
Lawsuits, when the aisle is empty
Service, rerouted
... (2) The process, notice, or demand is to be served on a registered foreign corporation that has withdrawn its registration pursuant to section 490.1507 or 490.1509, or the registration of which has been terminated pursuant to section 490.1511.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.504
The price of getting the company back
Reinstatement, the price on the tag
... administrative dissolution ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.122(1)(s)
Statute text captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01, then compared with the state's own text on 2026-08-10. Codes get restocked. This page does not.