This guide is general information, not legal or tax advice, and reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship. It reports what each state publishes about filing deadlines, fees, and the consequences of missing them, with the sources this page cites. It cannot tell you what your own company owes: the date turns on when and where you formed, states change these rules between our reviews, and in several states an entity-level tax falls due in a year when no report does. Confirm your own dates with the filing office named on this page before you rely on one here, because the penalty for missing a deadline can be administrative dissolution of the company.
Frequently Asked Questions
Your Wyoming LLC annual report is due on the first day of your LLC's anniversary month of formation, filed with the Wyoming Secretary of State. The Secretary of State's own example is that a business registering on January 15 has an annual report due date of January 1 each year. Wyoming charges no flat late fee if you file after that date, so the date itself is not what costs you money; the 60-day rule is. If the report is not filed within 60 days following the due date, the entity is administratively dissolved, which suspends your ability to do business under the name and makes coming back a $100 reinstatement for tax, assuming you act within the two years Wyoming statutes allow. You submit the report through the Secretary of State's online system at sos.wyo.gov or by mail, paying the license tax of $60 or $.0002 per dollar of assets located and employed in Wyoming, whichever is greater. Set a calendar reminder for the first of your anniversary month so the dissolution clock never starts.
Wyoming's annual report asks for your LLC's legal name exactly as filed, your registered agent's name and Wyoming street address, your principal office address, and the value of the assets your company has located and employed in Wyoming. That last figure is not incidental: it is what the license tax is calculated on. You pay $60 or two-tenths of one mill ($.0002) per dollar of Wyoming assets, whichever is greater, so $60 covers in-state assets up to $300,000 and larger holdings produce a larger bill. If the amount due exceeds $500 you cannot e-file and must send the report on paper. The report is due on the first day of your anniversary month of formation, and failure to file within 60 days following that date results in administrative dissolution and loss of liability protection. Gather your asset figure before you start, then file through the Secretary of State's online portal at sos.wyo.gov so the filing is confirmed the same day.
Yes, Wyoming law requires an LLC to maintain a registered agent with a Wyoming street address at all times. The agent can be you, if you have a Wyoming address, another individual, or a commercial registered agent service. Your registered agent receives statutory notices, lawsuits, and Secretary of State correspondence, and missing those documents is how owners end up with default judgments they never saw coming. This is not a formality you can let slide: an entity administratively dissolved for failure to maintain a registered agent costs $350 to reinstate, against $100 for reinstatement for tax, and Wyoming statutes bar reinstatement altogether after two years in dissolved status. The Secretary of State charges no separate state fee for having an agent, but you must keep the information current, so file the appropriate change with the Secretary of State as soon as your agent changes. Visit sos.wyo.gov to check the registered agent shown on your business record and update it if it is out of date.
Nothing happens immediately, which is exactly why Wyoming catches people out. There is no flat late fee: a report filed after the first day of your anniversary month costs the same license tax it always did, a minimum of $60. The real risk is the deadline behind the deadline. If the report is not filed within 60 days following the due date, the Wyoming Secretary of State administratively dissolves the entity, which ends its authority to carry on business other than winding up. From that point you have no entity in good standing to do business through, and the two-year reinstatement bar starts running. Reinstatement for tax costs $100 for an LLC, and $350 if the dissolution was for failure to maintain a registered agent. Wyoming statutes prevent reinstatement after two years in administratively dissolved status, so waiting it out is not an option. File the overdue report immediately at sos.wyo.gov, then check your anniversary date and set a reminder two weeks ahead of it to prevent a repeat.
Sources
Each entry below is a document recorded in our verified Wyoming sources, and each entry says what the document is. Some statutory text is read from an accurate mirror rather than from the state's own host, and those say so.
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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.
