WI registered agent
Wisconsin registered agent, $19, same as every other aisle
Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin puts on the label
The label
Straight from the Wisconsin code, no markdown:
... this state and whose business office is identical with the registered office. ... (2m) A registered agent for a corporation must have an e-mail address and a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.0501(1m)-(2m); § 183.0115
The Wisconsin annual report, priced by the state, skippable by you
Every year Wisconsin 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
$25 a year, tax not included.
... a domestic limited liability company, $25.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. s. 183.0122(2)(a)17.
Annual report tag, corporation
$25 a year, tax not included.
... report of a domestic corporation, $25.
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/180/I/0122
The restocking fee, as charged by Wisconsin
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
... one year that its registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered agent has resigned or that its ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1420(3)-(4)
Pulled from the shelf by the state
... year that its registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 183.0708(1)(c)-(d)
Also on the shelf
... use of its corporate name terminates on the effective date of its administrative ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1421(4)
Out-of-state authority, returned
... 180.1509 within 6 months that its registered agent or registered office has changed, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1530(1)(c)-(d)
No entry to the courthouse
... authority is required under s. 180.1501, may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until it obtains a certificate of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1502(1)
Penalty, priced by the state
... this chapter on the foreign corporation had it duly applied for and received a certificate of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1502(5)(a)
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
... an action cannot be served on a corporation pursuant to sub. (1) or (2), service may be made by handing a copy to the individual in charge of any regular place ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.0504(2)-(3)
The price of getting the company back
incFACTS has no verified reinstatement fee for Wisconsin yet. We have not asked, and the sign on our door would not tell you anyway.
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.