IN registered agent
Registered agent service in Indiana. $24 a year. Yes.
Every Indiana 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 Indiana
Requirement
The Indiana code provides:
... a general partnership, a domestic filing entity, or a registered foreign entity.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-4-3(a)
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: IC 23-0.5-4-10(b)
Enforcement in Indiana
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 2 of this chapter to dissolve a domestic filing entity administratively if the entity does not: ... (3) have a registered agent in this state for sixty (60) consecutive days; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-6-1
Revocation of foreign authority
The secretary of state may revoke the registration of a registered foreign entity, business trust, or agricultural cooperative if: ... (3) the entity does not have a registered agent as required by IC 23-0.5-4-1; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-5-11(a)
Loss of standing to sue
... maintain an action or proceeding in this state unless it is registered to do business in Indiana.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-5-2(b)
Pecuniary penalty
A foreign entity is liable for a civil penalty of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) if it transacts business in Indiana without a certificate of authority. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: IC 23-0.5-5-2(f)
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: IC 23-0.5-6-3(d)
The Indiana annual report, which you may also decline
incFACTS has not verified the Indiana annual report fee. Nor have we.
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.