Wyoming LLC | Wyoming Limited Liability Company
Wyoming LLC Filing
Forming a new Wyoming LLC is as easy as 1-2-3 with Wyoming Registered Agent’s formation service. Our Wyoming business specialists will file your formation documents with the Wyoming Secretary of State’s Business Division office online. Once the state approves your filing, we will upload the completed Certificate of Formation. Not only is forming an LLC easy when you form with us, but you get privacy and low costs, too!
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Wyoming LLC Formation Includes:
- Filed Articles of Organization – You can not file a Wyoming LLC without submitting the Articles of Organization. The state will stamp the filing and place a filing ID sticker on the first page. (Note: this is not the FEIN aka EIN, Employer Identification Number.)
- Filed Certificate of Organization – Once the Wyoming Secretary of State has accepted your Articles of Organization, they issue you a Certificate of Organization. This document is free and will be sent, along with the filed articles, back to you.
- Organizer Signature for the Articles of Organization – You must provide an Organizer when filing the Wyoming LLC Articles of Organization. This is the person that is putting together the paperwork for your LLC, and filing it. When we’re your organizer, we list our information instead of yours.
- Use of Our Wyoming Registered Agent Address – You must list the address of a WY registered agent in Wyoming on your formation paperwork. This cannot be a P.O. Box and the address must be easily accessible for serving service of process. Hire us and you can use our commercial address in downtown Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Plus, We Own Our Building!
Why does it matter? Because our address is the one on your formation documents. You want it to be professional and reliable.
Many other companies offering registered agent and/or business address services are located in temporary spaces owned by other people. This means they could lose their address at a moment’s notice—and so could you.
Even if you travel or move, your business address will stay put!
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What is an LLC?
Wyoming Limited Liability Company aka Wyoming LLC
According to the Wyoming Secretary of State:
“In 1977 a piece of special legislation was passed creating a unique entity called the Wyoming Limited Liability Company. It provides protection from personal liability like a corporation and receives the tax treatment of a limited partnership without limitation on citizenship of members or numbers of members. No general partner is liable for all debts of the enterprise. Each member of a limited liability company enjoys liability limited to the extent of their investment in the program and pays tax individually in proportion to ownership thus avoiding the corporate malady of double taxation.”
Wyoming LLC Articles of Organization
Wyoming LLC Articles of Organization is a document used to form a new Wyoming LLC. You can add as many additional articles that you desire, but you must always include the following:
- The Name of the Wyoming LLC being formed.
- The Registered Agent and Registered Agent Address.
- The Mailing Address for the Wyoming LLC.
- The Principal Office for the Wyoming LLC.
- The Organizer and Contact Information for the Wyoming LLC.
The Wyoming LLC Articles of Organization can be filed online or by paper. Wyoming Registered Agent will file your LLC formation documents in minutes.
LLC Name
The name of your LLC must include the words “Limited Liability Company,” or its abbreviations “LLC,” “L.L.C.,” “Limited Company,” “LC,” “L.C.,” “Ltd. Liability Company,” “Ltd. Liability Co.,” or “Limited Liability Co.” If your company does not have one of these variations on the end of it, the state will reject the filing. On the other hand, a Wyoming Corporation does not need an indicator at the end of the business name such as Inc or Corp.
For example, “Barry’s Bagels and Drinks, LLC” would be compliant for an LLC name. “Barry’s Bagels and Drinks” would not be accepted because there is not an LLC, L.L.C., LC or other similar ending.
You can search for an LLC name in Wyoming for free, using the state’s Business Filing Search.
Registered Agent
The registered agent for your Wyoming LLC must have a physical location in Wyoming to accept any process of service or other legal documents, not a P.O. Box. A registered agent can make or break the ease of doing business in Wyoming. Choose wisely. If the Wyoming registered agent representing your Wyoming Limited Liability Company does not do their job correctly you may never get important legal documents, including lawsuits or summonses. We’ll get the job done right the first time.
Wyoming Registered Agent offers registered agent service for Wyoming LLCs for a fair price. As Wyoming registered agent service providers since 2003, we like to think we are doing something right. Thousands of clients can’t be wrong.
Mailing Address
The mailing address listed for an LLC in Wyoming can be at any location, and it doesn’t have to be in Wyoming. However, most people use their Wyoming registered agent address so they can maintain their privacy. Anyone can look up a Wyoming LLC within the Wyoming Secretary of State business database and see the address and organizer of the LLC. If you run your business from home, that means using your home address on state forms. A better option? Hire us and use our address.
Our registered agent service comes with 3 free pieces of mail. If you want to use our address for your business mail, you’ll need a unique suite number, which you can get from our Mail Forwarding or Virtual Office service. List your Wyoming business address on letterhead, business cards, and your business website.
Wyoming LLC Filing Organizer
The Organizer of an LLC in Wyoming is the person or entity that puts together the Articles of Organization, signs the paperwork, and submits it to the Wyoming Secretary of State for processing. As your registered agent, we will use our Wyoming Registered Agent name to keep yours private.
Wyoming LLC Services
Forming your LLC with the Secretary of State allows you to officially do business in Wyoming. But there are other aspects to formalizing your business you’ll need to pay attention to, as well. Wyoming Registered Agent can help:
BOI Report Filing
Starting in 2024, most LLCs in the U.S. are required to file a Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) report. The report, to be filed online with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), must include information about your LLC and its owners, including:
- Name: Legal names (plus any DBAs for your LLC)
- Address: Jurisdiction of formation / residential address
- Date: Date of formation / birth
- ID: EIN, SSN, or ITIN / Photo ID (like a passport or driver’s license)
The main objective of a BOI report is to crack down on financial crimes, like money laundering and fraud. The information you provide will NOT be made public. Those who form a business in 2024 have 90 days to file their report, while those who form a business anytime after 2024 have 30 days. Failure to file a BOI report will result in fines.
The best way to avoid penalty fees? Hire us! When you form your LLC with Wyoming Registered Agent, we can take care of your BOI report filing for you for just $25.
Business Website + Email
Our Wyoming Business Presence gets you set up with everything you need to take your business online:
- Domain Name. If your website is your house, your domain name is your address. For example, our web address is www.wyomingregisteredagent.com, and our domain name is “wyomingregisteredagent.” You can’t get a website without a domain.
- Website. You’ll get a WordPress website that’s easy to customize to fit the look and messaging of your company, no coding experience necessary. However, if you don’t know where to start and want some help, our service experts can build your initial site for you, then walk you through how to use it!
- SSL Security. This is standard for websites these days. SSL security protects your information (and your customers’ information) from hackers. You know when a website has this security measure if it starts with “https” instead of “http.” The s stands for “security.”
- Email. Professionalize your correspondence with customers and associates by getting an email address tied to your domain name. For example: admin@wyomingregisteredagent.com.
- Phone Line & Service. Get a business phone line so you can separate personal calls from business calls. Our service gives you a 307 area code, tying your WY business to Wyoming. Plus, our phone app (compatible with iOS and Android) lets you access your new number with your own device so you don’t have to carry around extra hardware.
Our LLC formation service automatically gives you 90 days of Wyoming Business Presence for FREE. Each service is just $9/month after that, except for domain name which is free for a year then $25/year after that (up to $25).
Wyoming LLC Annual Compliance
In order to keep your Wyoming LLC active with the Wyoming Secretary of State, you must file an annual report every year for your Wyoming Limited Liability Company. Your registered agent will notify you in advance when your Wyoming annual report is due, and we do you one better: we automatically file your annual report for you for free! You only pay the state fee. With us, you’ll never miss an important annual report deadline again.
The minimum fee from the state is $60 to file the annual report ($63 online). If you miss the annual report, your Wyoming Limited Liability company will be administratively dissolved on the state level and there will be fees to reinstate the company. As your agent, we will make sure that’s never an issue.
Do you have additional questions? This is Wyoming: Feel FREE to contact us!