Your Wyoming LLC Is Doing Business in Another State
The short answer. You keep one LLC. It stays registered in Wyoming, which charges at least $60 a year to keep it in good standing, and a state that finds you are doing business there adds its own registration and its own filings on top. Whether your activity counts is decided by that state's own rule, not by this page. Of the 47 other states that have one figure to compare, 16 cost more in year-one registration than Wyoming's own first-year total of at least $160, and 31 cost less. Tennessee and Washington are outside those figures: Tennessee's fee scales with member count from $300, and Washington's $180 is before back fees, so neither has one figure to compare.
What you keep paying in Wyoming
When the Annual Report is due. The first day of the anniversary month of formation
Every Wyoming fee behind these figures is broken out on what an LLC costs in Wyoming.
What a second state adds
These are the states closest to Wyoming’s own cost line, plus the three dearest to enter. Each figure is that state’s first-year registration cost for an out-of-state LLC, beside what it charges every year after. Whether your activity counts as doing business there depends on the facts, and each state defines it differently.
| State | Year one to register | State charges, each year after | Against your year one (from $160) |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | $750 | $55/yr | $590 more |
| Texas | $750 | None | $590 more |
| Massachusetts | $500 | $520/yr | $340 more |
| Washington | at least $180 | $70/yr | not comparable, this is a floor |
| Vermont | $155 | $45/yr | $5 less |
| Alabama | $150 | None | $10 less |
| Arizona | $150 | None | $10 less |
| Illinois | $150 | $75/yr | $10 less |
| Louisiana | $150 | $30/yr | $10 less |
| Rhode Island | $150 | $450/yr | $10 less |
| West Virginia | $150 | $25/yr | $10 less |
A state charge of None is not a tax of none. The column is the recurring charge our fee dataset records, and a state that asks for no recurring filing may still levy an entity-level tax that sits outside it.
What we verified about Wyoming's own costs
Our notes, from Wyoming's published fee schedules and statutes.
Wyoming charges $100 for Articles of Organization and a minimum $60 annual report license tax, both on the fee schedule effective July 1, 2026. The $60 is a floor, not a flat fee: it is the greater of $60 or $.0002 per dollar of assets located and employed in Wyoming, so the $60 headline only holds while in-state assets stay at or below $300,000. Certificates of Good Standing are free online through WyoBiz, versus $20 from the fee schedule, and a certified copy of ten pages or fewer is $10. A name reservation is $60 for 120 days, but the Secretary of State notes it is unnecessary if you are filing Articles of Organization at the same time. Paper filings take up to 15 business days, and the fee schedule's expedite options are $700 for next business day and $1,400 for same business day.
The $60 annual report is a minimum tied to your Wyoming assets. Wyoming's annual report is a license tax equal to the greater of $60 or two-tenths of one mill ($.0002) per dollar of assets located and employed in Wyoming. Once in-state assets pass $300,000 the bill rises above $60 - $1,000,000 of Wyoming assets means $200 and $10,000,000 means $2,000 - so the 'cheap state' framing only holds for companies with few Wyoming-situated assets.
Miss the deadline by 60 days and you are dissolved. Wyoming charges no flat late fee, but if the annual report is not filed within 60 days after the first day of your anniversary month the entity is administratively dissolved. Reinstatement for tax is $100, and Wyoming statutes bar reinstatement after two years in dissolved status.
Expedited filing costs more than seven formations. The fee schedule effective July 1, 2026 prices expedited filing at $700 for next business day and $1,400 for same business day, against a $100 formation fee. Standard paper processing is up to 15 business days; online WyoBiz filings are effective immediately and are the practical fast path.
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Edmond Hui · Founder, MyStateLLC
Edmond Hui is a software engineer and serial entrepreneur based in New York who has founded multiple online businesses across e-commerce, media, and information publishing. Before transitioning into tech, he spent years as a commercial real estate professional closing deals totaling over 100,000 square feet, giving him firsthand experience with business formation and entity structuring. He built MyStateLLC to provide the free, state-specific LLC guidance he wished existed when forming his own companies.