IN registered agent
Indiana. $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 Indiana 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
... time of the entity's administrative dissolution and all fees, taxes, interest, and penalties that would ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-6-3(d)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... (2) the date shown on the return receipt, if signed by the entity; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-4-10(b)
How Indiana 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
... or (4) notify the secretary of state within sixty (60) days that ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-6-1
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... not deliver to the secretary of state for filing a statement of change under ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-5-11(a)
Locked out of the courthouse
... may not maintain an action or proceeding in this state unless it is registered to do ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-5-2(b)
The penalty
... dollars ($10,000) if it transacts business in Indiana without a certificate of authority. The attorney general may collect all penalties ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-5-2(f)
The Indiana annual report. Also skippable.
incFACTS has not verified the Indiana annual report fee. We did not wade that far.
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 Indiana code, word for word:
... an individual, a general partnership, a domestic filing entity, or a registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-4-3(a)
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.