WI registered agent
Wisconsin registered agent service, $5 a year
Wisconsin requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Wisconsin law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Wisconsin requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the Wisconsin code:
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
How we comply
We don't.
What Wisconsin 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
(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)
Administrative dissolution
(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 also
The corporation's right to the exclusive use of its corporate ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1421(4)
Revocation (foreign entities)
(c) The foreign corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for at least 6 months. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1530(1)(c)-(d)
No access to the courts
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)
Civil penalty
is liable to this state, for each year or any part of a year during which it transacted business in this state without a certificate of authority, in an amount equal to all of the following: 1. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1502(5)(a)
The bill to come back
We couldn't be bothered to look this up. incFACTS carries no human-verified reinstatement fee for Wisconsin in the registered agent dataset, and we are not the kind of company that checks.
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
if a corporation has no registered agent or its registered agent ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.0504(2)-(3)
One more thing to skip: the Wisconsin annual report
Our other ways to save money apply here too. Wisconsin 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
$25 a year.
17. Annual report of a domestic ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. s. 183.0122(2)(a)17.
Annual report fee, corporation
$25 a year.
180.0122(1m)(x) Annual report of ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/180/I/0122
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.