Wyoming certificate of authority: what each entity pays, and when

Any entity that transacts business in Wyoming and was formed elsewhere. The statute bans a foreign corporation from transacting business without a certificate and applies the same article to foreign LLCs. It sets 11 activities aside as not transacting business, and it calls its list non-exhaustive. A Wyoming business lawyer can place your company against it. The transacting-business page prints the list.

It is the Secretary of State's permission for the entity to transact business in Wyoming. It does not alter the entity: a foreign LLC does business in Wyoming by following the foreign article of the corporation chapter to the extent it is not inconsistent with the Wyoming Limited Liability Company Act. The company is still a Delaware, Nevada or other-state LLC.

The statute accepts a certificate of existence, or a document of similar import, duly authenticated by the official who keeps company records where the entity was formed. Whatever the name, it must be an original and it must be fresh.

Every application includes a statement that the entity accepts the Wyoming constitution.

The agent is an individual who is at least eighteen, lives in Wyoming and keeps a business office at the registered office; a Wyoming business entity or a foreign entity authorized to do business there, with its office at the registered office and a written agreement with an individual to accept service; or a commercial registered agent registered with the Secretary of State, and the registered office is a street address in Wyoming where the agent, or an individual with an agency relationship to the agent, is physically present to accept service. We can fill the role, or you can appoint another qualified person. See the agent rules.

The yearly charge is two-tenths of one mill on the dollar of assets located and employed in Wyoming, but never less than $60. At $300,000 of Wyoming assets or lower the floor is the whole bill, while $1,210,000 of assets gives $242. The due date is on the first day of the month in which the entity registered or qualified, each year. The annual tax page has the table.

The Secretary of State can revoke a certificate after notice, for example when annual reports or license taxes go undelivered or the agent and office lapse. A revoked or dissolved entity can reinstate within 2 years: $100 for tax on an LLC, $350 for lack of an agent.

The entity attaches a Use of Fictitious Name form to the application and trades in Wyoming under that name.

The corporation form has 10 items and lists officers and directors; the corporation form page covers it. A nonprofit pays $50 and a flat $25 annual report fee. For a partnership, ask us before you order.

Three more costs can sit around the Wyoming fee: the home certificate (priced by the home state), an outside agent's own charge, and the yearly license tax. Checkout lists each beside our fee.

We collect your details, complete the application and the consent page, name the last day to order the home certificate, and check the packet for the points that make the office return it. Our charge is $199; Wyoming's fee gets a line of its own at checkout. The apply-yourself page shows the whole route.