Wisconsin Statutes 180.0122 – Filing and service fees
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Terms Used In Wisconsin Statutes 180.0122
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Following: when used by way of reference to any statute section, means the section next following that in which the reference is made. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
- Qualified: when applied to any person elected or appointed to office, means that such person has done those things which the person was by law required to do before entering upon the duties of the person's office. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
- Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
- State: when applied to states of the United States, includes the District of Columbia, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the several territories organized by Congress. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
- Town: may be construed to include cities, villages, wards or districts. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
- Village: means incorporated village. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
(1g) Subject to subs. (1m) and (3), the department may collect a fee for filing, or providing a certified copy of, a record under this chapter. Any fee under this subsection shall be established by the department by rule. The department may also collect the fee established under s. 182.01 (4) (b) in connection with any request for a certificate of status under s. 180.0128 (1) to (3) or a statement of status under s. 180.0128 (4).
(1m) ?Except as provided under sub. (5), the department shall collect the following fees when the records described in this subsection are delivered to the department for filing or, under pars. (e) and (f), the telephone applications are made:
(a) Articles of incorporation, $100.
(b) Application for use of indistinguishable name, $10.
(c) Written application for reserved name, $15.
(d) Written application for renewal of reserved name, $15.
(e) Telephone application for reserved name, $30.
(f) Telephone application for renewal of reserved name, $30.
(g) Notice of transfer of reserved name or of registered name, $10.
(h) Application for registered name, $50.
(i) Application for renewal of registered name, $50.
(j) Subject to sub. (3) (c), domestic corporation‘s or foreign corporation’s statement of change of registered office, $10.
(k) Agent’s statement of change of registered office, $10 for each affected domestic corporation or foreign corporation, except if simultaneous filings are made the fee is reduced to $1 for each affected domestic corporation or foreign corporation in excess of 200.
(L) Agent’s statement of resignation, $10.
(Lg) A director or principal officer statement under s. 180.0860 (1), $3.
(Lr) A director or principal officer resignation notice under s. 180.0860 (2), $3.
(m) Amendment of articles of incorporation, $40.
(n) Restatement of articles of incorporation with or without amendment of articles, $40.
(o) Articles of merger, $150.
(om) Articles of share exchange, $50 for each domestic corporation and each foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state that is a party to the share exchange.
(p) Articles of dissolution, $20.
(q) Articles of revocation of dissolution, $10.
(r) Application for reinstatement following administrative dissolution, $90.
(s) Certificate of reinstatement, $10.
(t) Certificate of judicial dissolution, $10.
(u) Application for certificate of authority, $100, and, unless the application is made by a qualified new business venture, $3 for every $1,000 or fraction thereof of the foreign corporation’s capital exceeding $60,000 employed or to be employed in this state, computed as provided in s. 180.1503, as shown by the application.
(v) Application for amended certificate of authority, $40.
(w) Application for certificate of withdrawal, $40, and in case that application shows that the foreign corporation employs in this state capital in excess of the amount of capital on which a fee has previously been paid, computed as provided in s. 180.1520 (2) (f), an additional fee which, with previous payments made on account of capital employed in this state, will amount to $3 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the excess.
(x) Annual report of a domestic corporation, $25.
(y) Annual report of a foreign corporation, $65, and in case the annual report shows that the foreign corporation employs in this state capital in excess of the amount of capital on which a fee has previously been paid, computed as provided in s. 180.1503, an additional fee which, with previous payments made on account of capital employed in this state, will amount to $3 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the excess.
(ym) Articles of correction, $40.
(yr) Articles of conversion, $150.
(2) The department shall collect the fee established under s. 182.01 (4) (c) each time process is served on the department under this chapter. The party to a civil, criminal, administrative or investigatory proceeding causing service of process may recover this fee as costs if the party prevails in the proceeding.
(3) The department may not collect a fee for any of the following:
(a) Filing a certificate of administrative dissolution or a certificate of revocation of authority to transact business.
(b) Providing a confirmation of status by telephone.
(c) Filing a domestic corporation’s or a foreign corporation’s statement of change of registered office if the only change is to an address and all of the following apply:
1. The new address is the result of a change in the way a county, city, village, town or the U.S. postal service describes the physical location of the registered office.
2. A copy of the notice indicating the new address is submitted with the statement.
3. The physical location of the registered office has not changed.
(4) In addition to the fees required under sub. (1m) or permitted under sub. (1g), the department may collect the expedited service fee established under s. 182.01 (4) (d) for processing in an expeditious manner a record required or permitted to be filed with the department under this chapter and may collect the fee established under s. 182.01 (4) (f) for preparing in an expeditious manner a certificate of status under s. 180.0128 (1) to (3) or a statement of status under s. 180.0128 (4).
(5) The department, by rule, may specify a larger fee for filing records described in sub. (1m) in paper format.