IN registered agent
Indiana registered agent service, $5 a year
Indiana requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Indiana law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Indiana requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the Indiana code:
A registered agent must be an individual, a general partnership, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-4-3(a)
How we comply
We don't.
What Indiana does to your company when we don't
Here is what the state does to an entity that has no agent, or whose agent is us.
Administrative dissolution
The secretary of state may commence a proceeding under section 2 of this chapter to dissolve a domestic filing entity administratively if the entity does not: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-6-1
Revocation (foreign entities)
The secretary of state may revoke the registration of a registered foreign entity, business trust, or agricultural cooperative if: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-5-11(a)
No access to the courts
A foreign entity doing business in Indiana may not maintain an ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-5-2(b)
Civil penalty
A foreign entity is liable for a civil penalty of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) if it transacts business in Indiana without a certificate of authority. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-5-2(f)
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
To be reinstated, an entity must pay all fees, taxes, interest, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-6-3(d)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
If a represented entity ceases to have a registered agent, or ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-4-10(b)
One more thing to skip: the Indiana annual report
We couldn't be bothered to look this up. incFACTS carries no human-verified annual report fee for Indiana, and neither do we.
Statutory text as captured by incFACTS (retrieved 2026-08-01, verified word-for-word against the state code 2026-08-10). Laws change. The statute governs; this page does not.