IA registered agent
Iowa. $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 Iowa 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
... following administrative dissolution ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.122(1)(s)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... (2) The process, notice, or demand is to be served on a registered foreign corporation that has withdrawn its registration pursuant to section 490.1507 or 490.1509, or the registration of which has been terminated pursuant to section 490.1511.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
How Iowa 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 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
Drained 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 companies: authority pulled
... 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)
Locked out of the courthouse
... in this state shall not maintain a proceeding in any court of this state until it is registered to do ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.1502(2)
The Iowa annual report. Also skippable.
Iowa sends a bill every year to keep your company listed. Here is the bill. Not paying it is a saving of the exact kind we are.
Yearly report, LLC
$30 each year. Every year.
40.7(2) A limited liability company ... b. 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)
Yearly report, corporation
$60 each year. Every year.
ad. Biennial report .... $ 60
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code 490.122(1)(ad) (Iowa Code 2026)
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 Iowa code, word for word:
A registered agent, which may be any of the following: (1) An individual who resides in this state and whose business office is identical with the registered office. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.501(1)(b)
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.