WI registered agent
Wisconsin. $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 Wisconsin 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
incFACTS has not verified a Wisconsin reinstatement fee yet. We waded in without checking.
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
... (1) or (2), service may be made by handing a copy to the individual in charge of any regular place of business or activity of the corporation
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.0504(2)-(3)
How Wisconsin 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
(3) The corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for at least one year. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1420(3)-(4)
Drained by the state
(c) The company is without a registered agent in this state for at least one year. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 183.0708(1)(c)-(d)
And this
... exclusive use of its corporate name terminates on the effective date of its ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1421(4)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... 180.1508 or 180.1509 within 6 months that its registered agent or registered office has changed, that its registered agent has resigned or that its registered office has been discontinued.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1530(1)(c)-(d)
Locked out of the courthouse
A foreign corporation transacting business in this state without a certificate of authority, if a certificate of authority is required under s. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1502(1)
The penalty
... Fifty percent of the amount owed under subd. 1. or $5,000, whichever is less.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1502(5)(a)
The Wisconsin annual report. Also skippable.
Wisconsin 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
$25 each year. Every year.
... Annual report of a domestic limited liability company, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. s. 183.0122(2)(a)17.
Yearly report, corporation
$25 each year. Every year.
180.0122(1m)(x) Annual report of a domestic corporation, ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/180/I/0122
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 Wisconsin code, word for word:
Each corporation shall designate and maintain a registered office and registered agent in this state. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.0501(1m)-(2m); § 183.0115
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.