IA registered agent
Registered agent service in Iowa, $37 per year, within tolerance
Iowa expects each company on its register to keep a registered agent at a street address inside the state. The expectation is set out below in the state's own language. Our performance against it is rated further down. The rating has been consistent.
The Iowa annual report, an average obligation
Iowa bills each company annually to remain on the register. The amount is below. Paying it is standard practice. Not paying it is also a practice, and the rest of this page describes it.
Annual report charge, LLC
$30 per year. Average.
... The fee for an electronic filing through the secretary of state website is $30.
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 charge, corporation
$60 per year. Average.
ad. Biennial report .... $ 60
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code 490.122(1)(ad) (Iowa Code 2026)
Expectations set by Iowa
Expectation
As set out in the Iowa code:
... (2) A domestic or foreign corporation or eligible entity whose business office is identical with the registered office and, in the case of a foreign corporation or foreign eligible entity, is registered to do business in this state.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.501(1)(b)
Performance against expectations
Does not meet. Consistently. We regard the consistency as the achievement.
Delivery of papers when the desk is unattended
Service by other means
... (2) The process, notice, or demand is to be served on a registered foreign corporation that has withdrawn its registration pursuant to section 490.1507 or 490.1509, or the registration of which has been terminated pursuant to section 490.1511.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.504
Corrective action available to Iowa
Where an agent performs at our level, the state applies the following. Quoted from the code without adjustment, because adjusting it would take effort we have allocated elsewhere.
Dissolution, administrative
... The secretary of state has not been notified within sixty days that the corporation's 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: Iowa Code § 490.1420
Dissolution, administrative
... The secretary of state has not been notified within sixty days that the limited liability company's registered agent or place of business of the registered agent has been changed, or that its registered agent has resigned, or that the address of the registered agent has been discontinued.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 489.708
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... The secretary of state has not been notified within sixty days that the foreign corporation's 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: Iowa Code § 490.1511(1)
Standing in court withdrawn
... business in this state shall not maintain a proceeding in any court of this state until it is ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.1502(2)
Return to good standing, priced
Charge to return to good standing
... reinstatement following administrative dissolution ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.122(1)(s)
Quoted statutory text was captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and re-checked against the code on 2026-08-10. Statutes are revised at their own pace. This page is revised at ours.