ID registered agent

Idaho. $7 a year. Shallow end.

The rule is at the bottom of this page. We start with the bill, because that is the part that gets wet first. Every Idaho company names an agent with a real address in the state. We have the address. We keep a bowl at it.

The bill to climb back out

The climb-out fee

... were due to the secretary of state at the time of the entity's administrative dissolution and all fees, taxes, interest, and penalties that would have been due to the secretary of state while ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Idaho Code § 30-21-603(b)

The summons, and where it goes instead

Where the papers go instead

If a represented entity ceases to have a registered agent, or if its registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the entity may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, or by similar commercial delivery service, addressed to the entity at the entity's principal office. ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Idaho Code § 30-21-412(b)

How Idaho drains a company like yours

The state's own remedies for an agent that is furniture. Quoted. We added nothing, which is our specialty.

Drained by the state

The secretary of state may commence a proceeding under section 30-21-602, Idaho Code, to dissolve a domestic filing entity administratively if the entity does not: ... (2) Have a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) consecutive days; ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Idaho Code § 30-21-601

Out-of-state companies: authority pulled

The secretary of state may terminate the registration of a registered foreign entity in the manner provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this section if the entity does not: ... (2) Have a registered agent as required by section 30-21-402, Idaho Code; ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Idaho Code § 30-21-511(a)

Locked out of the courthouse

... partnership doing business in this state may not maintain an action or proceeding in this state unless it is registered to do ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Idaho Code § 30-21-502(b)

The Idaho annual report. Also skippable.

Yearly report, LLC

Idaho files the annual report free. Skip it anyway. Practice.

(7) Annual report .... No fee

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Idaho Code 30-21-214(b)(7)

Yearly report, corporation

Idaho files the annual report free. Skip it anyway. Practice.

(7) Annual report .... No fee

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Idaho Code 30-21-214(b)(7)

Do we do that

We are the bowl. The bowl does not do things.

The rule, at the bottom where we left it

What the state asks

The Idaho code, word for word:

"Noncommercial registered agent" means a person that is not a commercial registered agent and is: (A) An individual or domestic or foreign entity that serves in this state as the registered agent of an entity; ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Idaho Code § 30-21-102(29)

The quoted text was captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and checked against the code on 2026-08-10. Laws move. Puddles do not.

$122 a year stays in your pocket. Damp, but yours.

Or head for the start page.