Wyoming LLC filing: fees, forms, and deadlines from the state's own schedule

Every figure on this page comes from the Wyoming Secretary of State Business Division fee schedule revised June 2026, effective July 1, 2026, or from the Wyoming statutes. Not from an aggregator. That distinction is the whole reason this page is worth reading, because the numbers the rest of the internet repeats about Wyoming are wrong often enough to cost you.

A Wyoming number several websites agree on can be several copies of one mistake.

Three quick examples of the problem, all corrected here. The homestead exemption is widely published as $20,000; it has been $100,000 since 2023. Wyoming is described almost everywhere as having no expedited filing; the official schedule lists it. And the reinstatement fee gets quoted from the wrong row of the fee table, mixing up entity types. Every figure below was read from the state’s own source.

Naming the company

A Wyoming LLC’s name must include “Limited Liability Company” or an accepted abbreviation, such as “LLC” or “L.L.C.” The name has to be distinguishable from other entities on the Secretary of State’s record, which you can check through the state’s WyoBiz portal before filing.

A Wyoming LLC name must carry an LLC designator and stand apart from every other name on the state’s record.

You can hold a trade name for later use through a reservation, which the fee schedule lists at $30. If you will operate under a name other than the LLC’s legal name, that is a trade name registration, at $100, renewable for $50.

Forming the LLC

Formation is a single filing, the Articles of Organization, with the Secretary of State.

A Wyoming LLC costs $100 to form, and filed online it is registered the same day.

The filing fee is $100. Filed online through WyoBiz, the LLC is formed effectively immediately; filed by mail, processing runs roughly fifteen business days. Online payment adds a small card-processing convenience fee set by the payment processor, not the state. Wyoming does not require member or manager names in the articles, which is the source of the privacy discussed on the structure and cost page.

The registered agent

Every Wyoming LLC must appoint and maintain a registered agent with a physical address in Wyoming.

A Wyoming LLC must keep a registered agent with a real Wyoming street address, not a mailbox.

The agent has to be available at a Wyoming street address during business hours to accept service of process, so a post office box or a mail-forwarding service does not qualify. You can serve as your own agent if you have a Wyoming address, or hire a commercial agent, whose service fee is separate from any state charge.

The annual report and license tax

Wyoming has no separate franchise tax. The one recurring state charge is the annual report, filed with a license tax.

Wyoming’s annual report is due the first day of your anniversary month, and for most LLCs the tax is $60.

The license tax is the greater of $60 or two-tenths of one mill, $0.0002, per dollar of assets located and employed in Wyoming. The $60 minimum covers any LLC with $300,000 or less in Wyoming assets, which is most of them; above that, the tax is the asset figure times $0.0002. An LLC with $1,210,000 in Wyoming assets, for example, owes $242. The report is due the first day of the month in which the LLC was formed, every year. Filing online adds a small convenience fee.

Falling behind, and getting back

Miss the annual report or lose your registered agent and the state can administratively dissolve the company. Reinstatement is possible, and the fee depends on why you fell off.

Miss the annual report and reinstatement runs $100 for unpaid tax, or $350 if you also lost your registered agent.

Reinstatement for unpaid tax is $100. Reinstatement after losing your registered agent is $350, and that $350 figure is the LLC-specific row. Several sites quote $200 or $250, which are the rows for statutory trusts and profit corporations, not LLCs. This is the exact trap the sourcing discipline on this page exists to catch.

Registering a company from another state

An LLC formed elsewhere that does business in Wyoming registers as a foreign LLC by filing an Application for Certificate of Authority.

A Wyoming Certificate of Authority costs $150 and needs a good-standing certificate less than 60 days old.

The fee is $150, and the application must include an original certificate of good standing from the home state dated within sixty days. A company that transacts business in Wyoming without registering is exposed to back taxes and penalties. Once registered, a foreign LLC files the same annual report and license tax as a domestic one.

Moving, converting, and closing

Wyoming handles conversion, continuance, and domestication on the same $100 line as formation, so bringing a company into Wyoming as the same legal entity costs $100. Dissolving the LLC, amending the articles, or most other filings are $60 each. If the company runs a series, each series designated or established costs $10.

Bringing a company into Wyoming as the same entity is a $100 filing, and dissolving one is $60.

Two figures worth having on hand. A Certificate of Good Standing is free online through WyoBiz, or $20 for a paper certificate. And Wyoming does offer expedited service, contrary to what most guides claim: $700 for next business day and $1,400 for same business day. Those are steep and rarely needed, since online formation is already immediate, but the option exists.

The bottom line

Forming a Wyoming LLC is a $100 filing, registered the same day online, with no member names required on the record.

The only recurring state charge is the annual report, due your anniversary month, at a $60 minimum for most LLCs.

Falling behind is recoverable: $100 to reinstate for unpaid tax, $350 if you lost your registered agent.

Registering an out-of-state company costs $150 and a good-standing certificate under 60 days old.

Wyoming does offer expedited filing at $700 or $1,400, even though nearly every guide says it does not.

Every number here was read from the June 2026 state fee schedule or the statutes, because the widely repeated figures for Wyoming are often copies of one another’s mistakes.

What this page does not cover

This page is the mechanics: fees, forms, and deadlines. How creditors reach you in Wyoming is on the protection page. What the statute lets your operating agreement do is on the governance page. Where the entity lives, what it can be, and the tax cost of moving property are on the structure and cost page.

Last verified July 2026.