How to Form an LLC
in Wyoming

Wyoming charges a $100 filing fee for Articles of Organization filed online through WyoBiz ($102 by mail). That is the only mandatory state cost to form your LLC. Optional extras: name reservation ($60 for 120 days), expedited processing ($50), and certified copies ($20 each). Wyoming has no publication requirement. Eleet AI charges $299 all-inclusive — that covers the $100 state fee, Articles of Organization preparation, filing with the Wyoming Secretary of State, and first-year Wyoming registered agent service. National services commonly advertise Wyoming packages at $0–$149 for "formation" but add the $100 state fee, a mandatory registered agent ($125–$299/yr — required because you cannot be your own unless you have a Wyoming street address), mail forwarding, and various upsells, so the realistic first-year total is typically $325–$700.

Every Wyoming LLC must file an annual report by the first day of its anniversary month (the month the LLC was originally formed), paying a $60 minimum license tax. The fee scales upward only if your LLC owns more than $300,000 of assets located in Wyoming — above that threshold, the license tax is $0.0002 per dollar of Wyoming-situs assets ($60 minimum). Most non-resident Wyoming LLCs (holding companies, digital businesses, out-of-state operators) pay the flat $60. Missing the filing by the first day of the fourth month after the due date triggers administrative dissolution of your LLC. Reinstatement costs $100 plus all back-owed annual reports. Wyoming's $60/yr is the cheapest active-LLC maintenance cost in the United States — compare to California ($800 minimum franchise tax), Delaware ($300 franchise tax), or Massachusetts ($500 annual report).

Yes — Wyoming Articles of Organization do not require member or manager names to be disclosed on the public record. The filing lists only the organizer (whoever files the paperwork), the registered agent, and the principal office. When you use a commercial registered agent and a commercial organizer service, zero owner information appears in the Wyoming Secretary of State database. That is meaningfully stronger than Delaware (which technically does not require members either, but the Court of Chancery and franchise-tax processes surface ownership in other filings), and vastly stronger than California or New York (where ownership appears on Statement of Information / Biennial Statement filings). Two important caveats: (1) federal law — the Corporate Transparency Act requires beneficial ownership disclosure to FinCEN regardless of state, though that registry is non-public and restricted to law enforcement and financial institutions; (2) your LLC is not bulletproof — banks, IRS (EIN application), courts (litigation discovery), and the federal BOI registry still see ownership. Wyoming anonymity shields you from casual public searches and non-litigation creditors, not from subpoenas.

Standard online processing through WyoBiz is effectively immediate — most Wyoming LLC filings are approved within 24 hours, and certificates are delivered by email the same day. That is among the fastest turnarounds of any US state. Paper filings mailed to the Cheyenne Secretary of State office take 3–5 business days once received. Expedited processing is offered at $50 for 24-hour turnaround, but is rarely needed given that standard online processing is already same-day most of the time. Eleet AI's standard Wyoming filing uses normal online processing; add the $100 expedited add-on only if you specifically need a certified copy or priority manual review.

Yes — and unlike Georgia or Texas, Wyoming registered-agent law is strictly enforced. Every Wyoming LLC must designate a registered agent with a physical Wyoming street address (no P.O. boxes), available during normal business hours to accept service of process. You can serve as your own registered agent only if you personally have a Wyoming street address — if you do not live in Wyoming, you MUST use a commercial agent. The registered agent is the single hardest-to-replicate requirement for non-resident Wyoming LLC formation, which is why registered agent service is almost always bundled. Eleet AI provides a Wyoming registered agent service that includes the first year with every Wyoming LLC formation, then $100/yr after.

Wyoming Statute § 17-29-503 makes the "charging order" the exclusive remedy for a creditor seeking to collect against a member's LLC interest — meaning a personal-judgment creditor cannot foreclose on your LLC interest, seize your membership, or force distributions. They can only intercept distributions if and when the LLC actually makes them. This is the strongest asset-protection statute in the United States, and it applies equally to single-member LLCs (unlike some states, where single-member LLCs lose charging-order protection because there is no "other member" to protect). Combined with Wyoming's anonymity on the public filing and no state income tax, this is why Wyoming is the preferred domicile for holding companies, real-estate SPVs, and high-net-worth asset-protection structures. Caveat: you still must respect corporate formalities — commingling funds, failing to keep separate books, or using the LLC for fraud can pierce the veil regardless of state.

Wyoming does not legally require a written operating agreement — W.S. § 17-29-110 allows oral, implied, and written agreements — but you absolutely should have a written one. Wyoming's default LLC statute is one of the most flexible in the country, which is a double-edged sword: without a written agreement, courts will apply the default rules, and those defaults may not match how you actually want the LLC to operate. For single-member LLCs, a written operating agreement is particularly important because it strengthens the liability shield and the charging-order protection — courts and creditors are more likely to respect the separation when there is documentation demonstrating the LLC is a real business entity. Eleet AI offers a Wyoming-specific operating agreement template for $99 that includes Wyoming-statute-specific language on charging-order protection, member withdrawal, and distribution rights.

Yes — and in fact, most Wyoming LLCs are formed by non-residents. Wyoming actively courts non-resident filers with no state income tax, no franchise tax, and no annual gross-receipts tax. The only Wyoming-resident requirement is the registered agent, which commercial services like Eleet AI satisfy. HOWEVER — and this is the trap that catches most founders — if you operate your business primarily in another state (employees there, storefront there, clients there, services delivered from there), that state will almost certainly require you to register your Wyoming LLC as a "foreign LLC" doing business there. That means another filing fee, another registered agent in the home state, another annual report, and in some states (like California), you will also owe that state's minimum franchise tax ($800/yr in California) on top of Wyoming's $60. Wyoming only saves you money if your business genuinely does not have operations in a higher-tax state. Holding companies, pure-IP LLCs, and remote-only digital businesses generally pass this test; local service businesses generally do not.

In 2021, Wyoming became the first US state to recognize "Decentralized Autonomous Organization" LLCs — a new statutory entity type defined in W.S. § 17-31-101 et seq. A DAO LLC is a regular Wyoming LLC that elects to be governed by smart contracts running on a blockchain rather than by human members voting. The Articles of Organization must include a public blockchain address where the governing smart contract lives, and the name must end with "DAO LLC" or "LAO" (limited autonomous organization). DAO LLCs are niche — they are useful for on-chain governance structures, protocol treasuries, and tokenized ownership — but they carry real legal complexity and are NOT a substitute for a normal Wyoming LLC for most founders. If you are building a standard business, form a regular Wyoming LLC and add smart-contract operational layers on top. Eleet AI currently offers standard Wyoming LLC formation; DAO LLC formation is a specialized service we are evaluating for launch.

A Wyoming LLC is a pass-through entity by default for federal taxes, meaning the LLC itself does not pay federal income tax — profits flow to the members' personal returns. At the state level, Wyoming has NO individual income tax and NO corporate income tax, so profits from a Wyoming LLC face zero state-level income tax regardless of tax classification. Wyoming also has no state franchise tax, no gross-receipts tax, and no state-level business-and-occupation tax. What Wyoming DOES have: a 4% state sales tax (counties can add up to 2% local option) if you sell taxable goods or services, and the $60/yr annual license tax on the LLC itself. Property tax applies if the LLC owns Wyoming real estate. For non-resident Wyoming LLC owners: the state where you personally live still taxes your share of the LLC profits at that state's rate — Wyoming domicile does not exempt you from your home state's income tax on your pass-through earnings. True zero-tax-state benefit accrues only when both the LLC and the owners are Wyoming-based.