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
... If process, notice, or demand in an action cannot be served on a corporation pursuant to sub. (1) or (2), ...
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
... notify the department within one year that its registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered agent has resigned or that its registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1420(3)-(4)
Drained by the state
... the department within one year that its 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: Wis. Stat. § 183.0708(1)(c)-(d)
And this
... exclusive use of its corporate name terminates on the effective date of ...
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
... certificate of authority is required under s. 180.1501, may not maintain a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1502(1)
The penalty
... that would have been imposed by this chapter on the foreign corporation had it duly applied for and received a certificate of authority ... 2. Fifty percent of the amount owed ...
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.
... of a domestic limited liability company, $25.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. s. 183.0122(2)(a)17.
Yearly report, corporation
$25 each year. Every year.
... 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:
... A natural person who resides in this state and whose business office is identical with the registered office. ... (2m) ...
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.