IA registered agent
Iowa registered agent service, $5 a year
Iowa requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Iowa law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Iowa requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the Iowa code:
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)
How we comply
We don't.
What Iowa 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 490.1421 to dissolve a corporation administratively, if any of the following apply: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.1420
Administrative dissolution
The secretary of state may commence a proceeding under section 489.709 to dissolve a limited liability company administratively, if any of the following apply: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 489.708
Revocation (foreign entities)
The secretary of state may terminate the registration of a registered foreign corporation in the manner provided in subsections 2 and 3, if any of the following applies: ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.1511(1)
No access to the courts
A foreign corporation doing business in this state shall not ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.1502(2)
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
s. Application for reinstatement following administrative dissolution ... .. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.122(1)(s)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
2. If a corporation has no registered agent, or the agent cannot ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.504
One more thing to skip: the Iowa annual report
Our other ways to save money apply here too. Iowa charges the following to keep your company on its books each year. Skipping it saves the whole amount, right up until it does not.
Annual report fee, LLC
$30 a year.
40.7(2) A limited liability company ... b. The fee for an electronic ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Admin. Code 721-40.7(2)(b) (electronic $30) and 721-40.7(2)(a) (paper $45)
Annual report fee, corporation
$60 a year.
ad. Biennial report .... $ 60
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code 490.122(1)(ad) (Iowa Code 2026)
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.