WI registered agent
Registered agent service in Wisconsin, $37 per year, within tolerance
Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin annual report, an average obligation
Wisconsin 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
$25 per year. Average.
... report of a domestic limited liability ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. s. 183.0122(2)(a)17.
Annual report charge, corporation
$25 per year. Average.
... Annual report of a domestic corporation, ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/180/I/0122
Expectations set by Wisconsin
Expectation
As set out in the Wisconsin code:
... post office box, mailbox service, or telephone answering service. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.0501(1m)-(2m); § 183.0115
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
... corporation at its principal office, as shown on the records of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.0504(2)-(3)
Corrective action available to Wisconsin
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
... at least one year. (4) The corporation does not notify the department within one year that its registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1420(3)-(4)
Dissolution, administrative
... (d) The company does not notify the department within one year ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 183.0708(1)(c)-(d)
Additionally
... right to the exclusive use of its corporate name terminates on the effective date of its administrative dissolution.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1421(4)
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... (d) The foreign corporation does not notify the department under s. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1530(1)(c)-(d)
Standing in court withdrawn
... without a certificate of authority, if a certificate of authority is required under s. 180.1501, may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until it obtains a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1502(1)
Penalty, civil
... authority, in an amount equal to all of the following: 1. All fees and other charges that ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1502(5)(a)
Return to good standing, priced
incFACTS carries no verified figure for returning a Wisconsin company to good standing at present. We have not requested one. A request would be above average.
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.