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Filing fee: $100 (Articles of Organization) — about $102 online with the processor’s convenience fee
Processing time: Instant online — Wyoming LLCs filed through WyoBiz are active immediately; up to 15 business days by mail
State agency: Wyoming Secretary of State (WyoBiz online business center)
Annual report due: First day of your anniversary month each year — $60 minimum license tax (more only above $300,000 in Wyoming assets). Unfiled 60 days after notice, the LLC is dissolved.
State tax rate: No personal income tax and no corporate income tax — Wyoming ranks #1 on the Tax Foundation’s competitiveness index. Sales tax is 4% state, about 5.4% average combined
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Forming an LLC in Wyoming takes 5 steps: choose and check your business name, appoint a Registered Agent with a physical Wyoming address who signs a consent form, file Articles of Organization online or by mail, draft an operating agreement, and get an Employer Identification Number (EIN) from the IRS. The state filing fee is $100.
Wyoming invented the LLC — it was the first state to authorize them, back in 1977 — and it’s still arguably the best place to keep one: no personal income tax, no corporate income tax, a $60-minimum annual report, and instant online formation. Its charging-order protection is among the strongest in the nation, extended by statute even to single-member LLCs, and the public record never has to show who owns the company — Articles and annual reports can be signed by an organizer or agent, with no member or manager names required.
Be clear-eyed about what Wyoming does and doesn’t do: the privacy applies to the public state record — banks, the IRS, and federal law still identify owners — and if your business actually operates in another state, you’ll still need to register there as a foreign LLC and pay that state’s taxes. For holding companies, remote businesses, and anyone operating in Wyoming itself, though, the combination of cost, privacy, and asset protection is hard to beat.
Unlike some states, Wyoming doesn’t require you to reserve your name before filing — you simply claim it when you file your Articles of Organization. If you’re not ready to file yet, you can reserve a name for $60, which holds it for 120 days (renewable once) — though the reservation is a mail-in filing that itself takes up to 15 business days, so if the name is free, just filing online is usually smarter.
Your LLC name must be distinguishable from all registered Wyoming entities and reserved names, and must include a designator like “Limited Liability Company,” “Limited Company,” “LLC,” “L.L.C.,” “LC,” or “L.C.” Words implying banking or education need prior approval from the relevant Wyoming regulator. Check the Secretary of State’s business search before you file to avoid a rejection.
Every Wyoming LLC must have a registered agent — a person or entity designated to receive legal notices and government documents on behalf of the business. The agent must have a physical street address in Wyoming (no P.O. boxes, drop boxes, or mail-forwarding addresses), and Wyoming enforces this at filing: a signed Consent to Appointment by Registered Agent must accompany your Articles, or the filing is rejected outright.
You can serve as your own registered agent if you have a physical Wyoming address and can be there during business hours. Most out-of-state owners — a large share of Wyoming formations — use a professional registered agent service instead: it supplies the required in-state address, keeps your name off the public record (central to Wyoming’s privacy appeal), and ensures someone is always available to receive documents.
The Articles of Organization is the document that legally creates your Wyoming LLC. File online through the WyoBiz portal and the LLC is active immediately — Wyoming is one of the only states where online formation takes effect the moment you submit — for $100 plus a small card-processing fee (about $102 total). Mail filings cost the same $100 but take up to 15 business days plus transit. Wyoming’s paid expedite tiers ($700 next-day, $1,400 same-day, added in 2026) apply only to paper filings that can’t be done online — a standard formation never needs them.
The Articles must include your LLC’s name, its principal and mailing addresses, your registered agent’s name and Wyoming street address with the agent’s signed consent attached, and the organizer’s signature — and that’s all. No member or manager names appear anywhere, which is exactly how Wyoming’s ownership privacy works: the organizer can be your registered agent, keeping you entirely off the public record.
Wyoming doesn’t require you to file an operating agreement with the state, but you should have one — and in Wyoming it carries extra weight, since no public document names the owners, making the operating agreement the primary written proof of who owns the company. It defines how your LLC is managed: who owns what, how profits are distributed, and how decisions get made.
Your operating agreement should specify whether the LLC is member-managed or manager-managed. In a member-managed LLC, all owners share day-to-day authority. In a manager-managed LLC, a designated manager handles operations while other members retain economic rights. A written agreement is the version that holds up when disputes arise.
An Employer Identification Number (EIN) is a 9-digit federal tax ID issued by the IRS. Your Wyoming LLC needs one to open a business bank account, hire employees, and file federal taxes. Applying online at irs.gov is free and issues your EIN immediately after you complete the application.
To use the IRS online application, the responsible party must have a valid Social Security Number (SSN) or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN), and the business must have its principal place of business in the United States. The IRS does not charge a fee for issuing an EIN.
Wyoming LLCs file one report with the Secretary of State each year: the annual report, due on the first day of your anniversary month — formed January 15, due January 1. It doubles as the state’s license tax: $60 minimum, or $0.0002 per dollar of assets located in Wyoming, whichever is greater — so any LLC with $300,000 or less in Wyoming assets pays just $60 (about $62 filed online). Reports owing more than $500 must be mailed rather than e-filed.
Wyoming has no general state business license, and there’s no income tax filing at the state level at all. If you sell taxable goods or services in Wyoming, register with the Department of Revenue for a sales/use tax license — a one-time $60 fee, no renewals — to collect the 4% state rate plus local options (about 5.4% average combined). The annual report deadline is the obligation with teeth: go delinquent and the state sends notice, and 60 days later the LLC is administratively dissolved. Reinstatement is possible within two years ($100 plus the back reports); after two years, the LLC is gone for good.
The required Wyoming state fee is $100 to file the Articles of Organization — about $102 online with the card-processing fee. The annual report license tax is a $60 minimum (rising only if you hold over $300,000 of assets in Wyoming), and name reservation is optional at $60. Sellers add a one-time $60 sales tax license from the Department of Revenue. There’s no additional state fee to get your EIN; the IRS issues EINs for free.
Yes. Wyoming allows a single person to form and own an LLC – this is called a single-member LLC, and Wyoming’s charging-order protection explicitly extends to it. You can complete the Articles of Organization yourself through the WyoBiz portal without an attorney, with the LLC active the moment you submit. You’ll still need a registered agent with a physical Wyoming address whose signed consent accompanies the filing — that can be yourself if you live in Wyoming, or a professional service if you don’t.
No. Wyoming charges a $100 Articles of Organization fee – that’s a required state fee you can’t avoid, though with the $60-a-year report after it, Wyoming remains one of the cheapest states to own an LLC. What you can avoid is paying extra for formation help. We handle your Wyoming LLC filing for $1; you only pay the required state fees.
Yes. Every Wyoming LLC files an annual report due on the first day of its anniversary month — note it’s the first of the month, not your formation date. The report carries the state’s license tax: $60 minimum, or $0.0002 per dollar of Wyoming-located assets if that’s higher. Miss it and the LLC goes delinquent; 60 days after the state’s notice, it’s administratively dissolved. You then have two years to reinstate ($100 plus the missed reports) — after that, the company can’t be revived and must be formed fresh.
Yes, every Wyoming LLC is required to continuously maintain a registered agent. A registered agent is a person or entity that receives legal notices and official government documents on behalf of your LLC. The agent must have a physical street address in Wyoming — P.O. boxes and mail-forwarding addresses are rejected — and must sign a Consent to Appointment that’s filed with your Articles. Letting the agent lapse is itself grounds for dissolution. You can serve as your own agent if you’re in Wyoming, or use a professional service.
The mistakes that come up most often are missing the annual report because it’s due the first day of the anniversary month (not the anniversary date), and letting a dissolved LLC sit past the two-year reinstatement window, after which it’s unrecoverable. Filers also get rejected for omitting the registered agent’s signed consent or listing a mail-forwarding address as the registered office, overstate the privacy (it shields the public record, not the IRS or your bank), and assume a Wyoming LLC erases taxes for a business actually operating in another state — foreign registration and home-state taxes still apply.
Instantly, if you file online — Wyoming LLCs formed through the WyoBiz portal are active immediately upon submission, making it one of the fastest states in the country. Mail filings take up to 15 business days of processing plus transit. The paid expedite tiers Wyoming added in 2026 ($700 next-day, $1,400 same-day) apply only to paper-only filings, so a standard formation never needs them: just file online.
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