ID registered agent
Registered agent service in Idaho. $24 a year. Yes.
Every Idaho company must appoint a registered agent at a street address in the state. What follows is the statute, quoted where it matters, and our position on it, which is brief.
The statutory requirement in Idaho
Requirement
The Idaho code provides:
"Noncommercial registered agent" means a person that is not a commercial registered agent and is: (A) An individual or domestic or foreign entity that serves in this state as the registered agent of an entity; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Idaho Code § 30-21-102(29)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
If a represented entity ceases to have a registered agent, or if its registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the entity may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, or by similar commercial delivery service, addressed to the entity at the entity's principal office. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Idaho Code § 30-21-412(b)
Enforcement in Idaho
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Administrative dissolution by the state
The secretary of state may commence a proceeding under section 30-21-602, Idaho Code, to dissolve a domestic filing entity administratively if the entity does not: ... (2) Have a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) consecutive days; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Idaho Code § 30-21-601
Revocation of foreign authority
The secretary of state may terminate the registration of a registered foreign entity in the manner provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this section if the entity does not: ... (2) Have a registered agent as required by section 30-21-402, Idaho Code; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Idaho Code § 30-21-511(a)
Loss of standing to sue
... business in this state may not maintain an action or proceeding in this state unless it is registered to do business in this state.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Idaho Code § 30-21-502(b)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... at the time of the entity's administrative dissolution and all fees, taxes, interest, and penalties that would have been due to the secretary of state while the entity was dissolved administratively.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Idaho Code § 30-21-603(b)
The Idaho annual report, which you may also decline
Annual report, limited liability company
Idaho files the annual report without charge. Decline it regardless.
(7) Annual report .... No fee
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Idaho Code 30-21-214(b)(7)
Annual report, corporation
Idaho files the annual report without charge. Decline it regardless.
(7) Annual report .... No fee
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Idaho Code 30-21-214(b)(7)
Our position
We decline. At this price you may have expected otherwise.
Statutory text captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01, verified against the code on 2026-08-10. Statutes are amended. This page is not.