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Wyoming LLC Facts — Every Number, One Page

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Nothing on this page is retyped. Every Wyoming fee, date, and answer below is read live from the Private Pierce matrix that cites it, so a correction made in the underlying dataset corrects this page too. Where Wyoming has not been primary-source-verified for a question, the fact says so instead of showing a guess.

Formation

Filing fee
$102.00 — source: sos.wyo.gov, checked 2026-05-31
How to file
Online — source: sos.wyo.gov, checked 2026-05-31
Standard turnaround
Immediate Acceptance — source: sos.wyo.gov, checked 2026-05-31
Expedited filing available
No — source: sos.wyo.gov, checked 2026-05-31
Expedite fee
Not applicable — source: sos.wyo.gov, checked 2026-05-31
Source noteNot applicable: state offers no expedited filing option (expedite_available = no).

Annual compliance

Annual report required
Yes — source: sos.wyo.gov, checked 2026-05-31
Filing frequency
Annual — source: sos.wyo.gov, checked 2026-05-31
Filing due
Anniversary Month — source: sos.wyo.gov, checked 2026-05-31
Annual filing fee
$60 min (or $0.0002 × WY-located assets, whichever greater) — source: sos.wyo.gov, checked 2026-05-31
Source note$60 minimum, or $0.0002 × value of WY-located-and-employed assets, whichever is greater. Annual Report License Tax is variable: $60 minimum or two-tenths of one mill on the dollar of Wyoming assets, whichever is greater | cp-hexu raise-the-bar 2026-06-07: recovered from on-disk primary snapshot 99cafab9 — filing line: Annual Report License Tax — $60 or two-tenths of one mill ($.0002) on WY assets, whichever greater. Entity-disciplined (domestic_llc).
Franchise tax
No — source: sos.wyo.gov, checked 2026-05-31
Source noteWyoming imposes no franchise tax on LLCs
Late fee
$50 — source: sos.wyo.gov, checked 2026-05-31
Source notelate filing penalty added to LLC annual/periodic report fee
Administrative dissolution trigger
If the annual report remains unfiled 60 days past the due date, the LLC is administratively dissolved — source: sos.wyo.gov, checked 2026-05-31
Source noteAdministrative dissolution occurs 60 days after missed filing deadline

Amendments

Amendment filing fee
$60.00 — source: sos.wyo.gov, checked 2026-05-31
Source note'Amendment/Dissolution/Any Other Filing $60.00'
How to file
by mail — source: sos.wyo.gov, checked 2026-05-31
Source noteform states 'Please mail with payment... This form cannot be accepted via email.'
Standard turnaround
up to 15 business days — source: sos.wyo.gov, checked 2026-05-31
Source noteprocessing time per form wording

Dissolution

Dissolution filing fee
$60.00 — source: sos.wyo.gov, checked 2026-05-31
Standard turnaround
Other - See Column F — source: sos.wyo.gov, checked 2026-05-31

Reinstatement

Reinstatement fee
$100.00 — source: sos.wyo.gov, checked 2026-06-01
Source note'Reinstatement for Tax $100.00'
Late penalty
$250 — source: sos.wyo.gov, checked 2026-06-01
Source noteAn additional $250 penalty is assessed for failure to maintain a registered agent. Delinquent annual report fees (minimu
Reinstatement window
Two years from the effective date of administrative dissolution. — source: sos.wyo.gov, checked 2026-06-01
Source noteAfter two years, entity cannot be reinstated and must be re‑formed.

Good standing

Certificate of good standing fee
$20.00 — source: wyobiz.wyo.gov, checked 2026-05-31
Source noteCertificate of Existence/Evidence/Good Standing (paper certificate $20.00); online good-standing status check is free ($0) per snapshot note

Registry & privacy

Searchable by entity name
Not yet confirmed — state portal blocks automated access — source: wyobiz.wyo.gov, checked 2026-05-12
Source noteWY portal CAPTCHA-walled; operator-ratified inaccessible 2026-05-11 (RA-visibility matrix). Search-field enumeration cannot be observed via WebFetch.
Searchable by officer/member name
Not yet confirmed — state portal blocks automated access — source: wyobiz.wyo.gov, checked 2026-05-12
Source noteWY portal is CAPTCHA-gated; field enumeration not observable per pipeline operator ratification.
Bulk registry data available
Not yet confirmed — state portal blocks automated access — source: wyobiz.wyo.gov, checked 2026-05-14
Source noteWY portal CAPTCHA-walled; operator-ratified inaccessible (matches registry-searchability and member-name matrix observations 2026-05-11 / 2026-05-14). Bulk-data offering cannot be confirmed via WebFetch and is treated as accepted-fact-unkno
Access method
Not yet confirmed — state portal blocks automated access — source: wyobiz.wyo.gov, checked 2026-05-14
Source noteSame.
Articles publicly downloadable
Not yet confirmed — state portal blocks automated access — source: wyobiz.wyo.gov, checked 2026-05-12
Source noteSame.
Annual reports publicly downloadable
Not yet confirmed — state portal blocks automated access — source: wyobiz.wyo.gov, checked 2026-05-12
Source noteSame as F1/F2.
Organizer name required
Yes — source: sos.wyo.gov, checked 2026-06-08
Source noteWY Articles of Organization (LLC-ArticlesOrganization, revised June 2021, W.S. 17-29-201) requires the organizer's signature and printed name in the certification block: 'Signature: ___ (Shall be executed by an organizer.) ... Print Name: ___'. Both signature and printed name are mandatory fields on the publicly filed form. Source: official WY SoS form at sos.wyo.gov/Forms/Business/LLC/LLC-ArticlesOrganization.pdf.
Organizer name publicly visible
Not yet confirmed — state portal blocks automated access — source: sos.wyo.gov, checked 2026-06-08
Source noteThe organizer's printed name is required on the Articles of Organization (W.S. 17-29-201; per official WY SoS form, revised June 2021). However, the WY SoS entity-search portal (wyobiz.wyo.gov) is CAPTCHA-walled and was ratified inaccessible to automated fetch on 2026-05-11 — this has not changed. Statutory basis: the organizer name IS on the publicly filed document and the form instructions state it is filed with the WY SoS. Observability of the specific organizer-name field via the online portal cannot be confirmed directly.

Entity innovation

Close LLC available
Yes — source: sos.wyo.gov, checked 2026-08-15
Source noteWyo. Stat. §§ 17-25-101 to 17-25-107 (Close Limited Liability Company Supplement). Verbatim, 17-25-103(a): "A close limited liability company is a limited liability company whose articles of organization contain a statement that the company is a close limited liability company." An existing WY LLC may convert by amending its articles (17-25-103(b)). Alters default transfer/withdrawal/capital-return rules per the mandatory NOTICE statement (17-25-103(c)). research-builder-adhoc-36417f87ef 2026-08-15, official Wyoming SoS compiled PDF (curl direct fetch; text extracted via pypdf, WebFetch's small model could not parse the PDF binary). sha256 48608d54654709d57f6c3e8d8bf681f2d377ed3f72ff8b5046fc5f6f29f0540e.
Series LLC available
Yes — source: sos.wyo.gov, checked 2026-08-15
Source noteWyo. Stat. § 17-29-211 ("Series of members, managers, transferable interests or assets"). Verbatim (a): "An operating agreement may establish or provide for the establishment of one (1) or more designated series of members, managers, transferable interests or assets." Liability shield conditioned on separate records + notice in articles of organization (subsection (c)). Reconciles with existing gov_entities.series_llc_authorization pilot row (series_llc_authorized=yes, same statute) — re-sourced here to a .gov citation per the tightened source-domain-policy-gov-only floor (prior row cited law.justia.com, now disallowed). research-builder-adhoc-36417f87ef 2026-08-15. sha256 48608d54654709d57f6c3e8d8bf681f2d377ed3f72ff8b5046fc5f6f29f0540e.
DAO LLC available
Yes — source: sos.wyo.gov, checked 2026-08-15
Source noteWyo. Stat. §§ 17-31-101 to 17-31-116 (Wyoming Decentralized Autonomous Organization Supplement). Verbatim, 17-31-104(a): "A decentralized autonomous organization is a limited liability company whose articles of organization contain a statement that the company is a decentralized autonomous organization." Dedicated election mechanism (17-31-104(b)-(c)), mandatory name marker "DAO"/"LAO"/"DAO LLC" (17-31-104(d)). Wyoming was the first US state to enact a DAO LLC statute (SB 38, 2021) — this fact is background context, not independently verified against legislative history here; the statute text itself is the citation. research-builder-adhoc-36417f87ef 2026-08-15, official Wyoming SoS compiled PDF (curl direct fetch; pypdf extraction). sha256 b900f8c58169c8402f66b5294d6e671a86a320b6ac0c70d1a21a590edf74e714.
Lifetime proxy available
Yes — source: sos.wyo.gov, checked 2026-08-15
Source noteWyo. Stat. § 17-29-407(d), verbatim: "An action requiring the consent of members under this article may be taken without a meeting, and a member may appoint a proxy or other agent to consent or otherwise act for the member by signing an appointing record, personally or by the member's agent." IMPORTANT CALIBRATION: this is an unqualified grant with NO 'unless otherwise provided in the operating agreement' override language and NO stated durational limit anywhere in the section — the strongest/least-conditional form found in the 5-state benchmark, hence 'yes' not 'conditional' (contrast DE/CA/NY below, all of which are framed as defaults an operating agreement can override). The statute itself never uses the word "lifetime" — that framing is a practitioner/marketing gloss on the section's silence as to duration, not statutory language; flagging this distinction for the T3 entity-statutes page author. research-builder-adhoc-36417f87ef 2026-08-15. sha256 48608d54654709d57f6c3e8d8bf681f2d377ed3f72ff8b5046fc5f6f29f0540e.

Taxes

State income tax
No — source: wyoleg.gov, checked 2026-08-15
Source noteW.S. § 39-12-101 (Preemption by state): 'The state of Wyoming does hereby preempt for itself the field of imposing and levying income taxes, earning taxes, or any other form of tax based on wages or other income and no county, city, town or other political subdivision shall have the right to impose, levy or collect such taxes.' Chapter 12 (Income Tax) contains no other section. sha256:4c09c416da8a8e442c393036fe57ddd298ffbd248e52c0b88dabbac1c7fd9a6d (local: staging/entity-tax-burden-snapshots/WY-income-tax-wyoleg-title39-ch12.txt)
Entity-level franchise tax
No — source: wyoleg.gov, checked 2026-08-15
Source noteTRANSCLUDED from domestic-llc-annual-renewal-rules-by-state, state=WY, field=franchise_tax (not independently re-sourced, per SPEC's one-fact-one-statement rule). Source: https://sos.wyo.gov/Business/Docs/FeeSchedule.pdf. chain-pending: this row is one of the 6 states (HI/KS/LA/NC/WV/WY) whose citation chain in the SOURCE matrix (domestic-llc-annual-renewal-rules-by-state) is currently typed_unknown -- no resolving on-disk snapshot as of 2026-08-14 sub_unit C work on that matrix. Propagated here accurately via transclusion, not a new gap introduced by this matrix.. Full citation detail lives in that matrix's own sources.json, not duplicated here.
Annual report/license tax
$60 min (or $0.0002 × WY-located assets, whichever greater) — source: wyoleg.gov, checked 2026-08-15
Source noteTRANSCLUDED from domestic-llc-annual-renewal-rules-by-state, state=WY, field=state_fee (not independently re-sourced, per SPEC's one-fact-one-statement rule). Source: https://sos.wyo.gov/Business/Docs/FeeSchedule.pdf. chain-pending: this row is one of the 6 states (HI/KS/LA/NC/WV/WY) whose citation chain in the SOURCE matrix (domestic-llc-annual-renewal-rules-by-state) is currently typed_unknown -- no resolving on-disk snapshot as of 2026-08-14 sub_unit C work on that matrix. Propagated here accurately via transclusion, not a new gap introduced by this matrix.. Full citation detail lives in that matrix's own sources.json, not duplicated here.

Asset protection

Charging order is exclusive remedy
Yes — source: wyoleg.gov, checked 2026-08-07
Source noteSec 17-29-503(g): exclusive remedy explicitly extends to sole member. Zero occurrences of single-member/single member anywhere else in Title 17 LLC Act -- no separate carve-out exists. Same posture as TX/NV. Verbatim quote independently re-confirmed by research-builder-1 against the agent's downloaded PDF text, 2026-08-07. sha256 f0fd7eb8...71f6.
Single-member carve-out
No — source: wyoleg.gov, checked 2026-08-07
Source noteSec 17-29-503(g): exclusive remedy explicitly extends to sole member. Zero occurrences of single-member/single member anywhere else in Title 17 LLC Act -- no separate carve-out exists. Same posture as TX/NV. Verbatim quote independently re-confirmed by research-builder-1 against the agent's downloaded PDF text, 2026-08-07. sha256 f0fd7eb8...71f6.
Self-settled asset protection trust permitted
Yes — source: wyoleg.gov, checked 2026-09-12
Source noteDAPT state since 2007, contrasts TX's no; similar posture to NV. Cross-referenced source (Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act limitations period) also registered: sha256 dffab8c62b28f3387dcfdea2e38322cb0fa78d9c7c4ec1499bbf2dcf39a5300b, https://wyoleg.gov/statutes/compress/title34.pdf. sha256 79a8211754506b913435690df99899884f3d44df3a2823004bbfe3f51f677f89. Both hashes independently re-derived (fresh fetch + shasum, not copied) 2026-08-15 by research-builder-adhoc-94a2fafc4f (ga-gm8aj0); the title34.pdf hash was previously only ever recorded truncated (dffab8c6...5300b) anywhere on disk -- this is its first full-form recording.

History

LLC Act enacted
1977 — source: wyoleg.gov, checked 2026-08-15
Source noteWyo. Stat. Ann. §17-29-101 et seq. (Wyoming Limited Liability Company Act, originally enacted 1977). Title 17 compress PDF confirms Chapter 29 = Wyoming Limited Liability Company Act (independently re-fetched 2026-08-15, sha256 byte-identical to original fetch: f0fd7eb843b83bb60095bad496330f8dfd46ff7051dff8d1bec822650a3671f6; confirmed this compiled document carries no inline 1977 history note). The 1977 year itself rests on a separate 1977-era image-based document (0 extractable text via pypdf/pdftotext) accepted via a Google-indexed excerpt reading 'In 1977, Wyoming enacted a statute...' -- an honestly-disclosed, previously-used pattern for this rig (image-PDF, search-index corroboration). Confidence: high. Source: https://wyoleg.gov/statutes/compress/title17.pdf. sha256 f0fd7eb843b83bb60095bad496330f8dfd46ff7051dff8d1bec822650a3671f6 (re-verified byte-identical 2026-08-15).

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Why do some Wyoming facts say they are not yet confirmed?

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