WY registered agent
Wyoming. $7 a year. Shallow end.
The rule is at the bottom of this page. We start with the bill, because that is the part that gets wet first. Every Wyoming company names an agent with a real address in the state. We have the address. We keep a bowl at it.
The bill to climb back out
The climb-out fee
... for failure to maintain a registered agent, include payment of a two hundred fifty dollar ($250.00) reinstatement fee and payment of any fees ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1422(a)(v)
The summons, and where it goes instead
Where the papers go instead
(b) If a business entity has no registered agent, or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the entity may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the entity at its principal office. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-104(b); § 17-28-103(e)
How Wyoming drains a company like yours
The state's own remedies for an agent that is furniture. Quoted. We added nothing, which is our specialty.
Drained by the state
(iii) The corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1420(a)(iii)-(iv)
Drained by the state
... any reason, it shall be deemed to be transacting business within this state without authority and to have forfeited any franchises, rights or privileges acquired under the laws thereof ... Unless ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-29-705(a)
Out-of-state companies: authority pulled
... 17-28-102 or 17-28-103 that its registered agent or registered office has changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its registered office has been discontinued within thirty (30) days of the change, resignation or discontinuance;
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1530(a)(iii)-(iv)
And this
... successor is appointed, the secretary of state shall classify the entity as delinquent awaiting administrative dissolution, revocation or forfeiture of its articles ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-103(f)
Locked out of the courthouse
... this state without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until it obtains a ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1502(a)
The penalty
... eighteen percent (18%), which would have been imposed by law upon such corporation had it duly applied for and received a certificate of authority ... and in addition shall be liable for a penalty ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1502(d)
The Wyoming annual report. Also skippable.
Wyoming sends a bill every year to keep your company listed. Here is the bill. Not paying it is a saving of the exact kind we are.
Yearly report, LLC
$60 each year. Every year.
... capital, property and assets reported, of sixty dollars ($60.00) or two-tenths of one mill on the dollar ($.0002), ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W.S. 17-29-209(a)
Yearly report, corporation
$60 each year. Every year.
... capital, property and assets reported, of sixty dollars ($60.00) or two-tenths of one mill on the dollar ($.0002), ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W.S. 17-16-1630(a)
Do we do that
We are the bowl. The bowl does not do things.
The rule, at the bottom where we left it
What the state asks
The Wyoming code, word for word:
... (C) A foreign business entity authorized to transact business in this state whose business office is identical with the registered office ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-101(a)-(b)
The quoted text was captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and checked against the code on 2026-08-10. Laws move. Puddles do not.