IA registered agent
Registered agent service in Iowa. $24 a year. Yes.
Every Iowa 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 Iowa
Requirement
The Iowa code provides:
... state and whose business office is identical with the registered office. (2) A domestic or foreign ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.501(1)(b)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... 3. a. The secretary of state shall be an agent of the corporation ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.504
Enforcement in Iowa
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Administrative dissolution by the state
... 3. The corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for sixty days or more. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.1420
Administrative dissolution by the state
... liability company is without a registered agent or the registered agent does not have a place of business in this state for sixty days or more. 4. The secretary of state ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 489.708
Revocation of foreign authority
... any of the following applies: ... c. The foreign corporation is without a registered agent or registered office ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.1511(1)
Loss of standing to sue
... doing business in this state shall not maintain a proceeding in any court of this state until it ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.1502(2)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... for reinstatement following administrative dissolution ... .. $ ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code § 490.122(1)(s)
The Iowa annual report, which you may also decline
Iowa levies an annual charge to keep a company in good standing. The amount is below. Declining it is consistent with everything else on this page.
Annual report, limited liability company
$30 per annum.
... limited liability company ... b. The fee for an electronic filing through the secretary of state ...
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, corporation
$60 per annum.
ad. Biennial report .... $ 60
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Iowa Code 490.122(1)(ad) (Iowa Code 2026)
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.