WI registered agent
Registered agent service in Wisconsin. $24 a year. Yes.
Every Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin
Requirement
The Wisconsin code provides:
... a street address and not solely a post office box, mailbox service, or telephone answering service. The registered agent shall be any of the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.0501(1m)-(2m); § 183.0115
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... by similar delivery service, addressed to the corporation at its principal office, as shown on the records of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.0504(2)-(3)
Enforcement in Wisconsin
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Administrative dissolution by the state
... this state for at least one year. (4) The corporation does not notify ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1420(3)-(4)
Administrative dissolution by the state
... for at least one year. (d) The company does not notify the department within one year that ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 183.0708(1)(c)-(d)
Further
... right to the exclusive use of its corporate name terminates on the ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1421(4)
Revocation of foreign authority
... state for at least 6 months. (d) The foreign corporation does not notify the department under ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1530(1)(c)-(d)
Loss of standing to sue
... state without a certificate of authority, if a certificate of authority ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1502(1)
Pecuniary penalty
... this state without a certificate of authority, in an amount equal to all of the following: 1. All fees and other charges that would have been imposed by this chapter on the foreign corporation had ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. § 180.1502(5)(a)
Restoration
incFACTS has not yet verified the Wisconsin restoration fee. We have not enquired.
The Wisconsin annual report, which you may also decline
Wisconsin 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
$25 per annum.
... Annual report of a domestic limited liability company, $25.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wis. Stat. s. 183.0122(2)(a)17.
Annual report, corporation
$25 per annum.
180.0122(1m)(x) Annual report of a domestic corporation, ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/180/I/0122
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.