WY registered agent
Wyoming, $42 a year, and all of it is ours
Wyoming. One state. We took it. Below, in the state's own words, is what it does when the agent is up here and the papers are down there, what it costs to come back, the rule, where the lawsuit goes and what it charges every year. The state writes small. We wrote the headings.
What the state does about it
The state's words, untouched. We would have made them bigger.
Struck off the books, from below
... changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its registered office has been ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1420(a)(iii)-(iv)
Struck off the books, from below
... the limited liability company shall be deemed defunct and to have forfeited its articles of organization
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-29-705(a)
Out-of-state company: authority taken back
... 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)
Also in the code, smaller print
... administrative dissolution, revocation or forfeiture of its articles of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-103(f)
Courthouse door shut in your face
... proceeding in any court in this state until it obtains a certificate of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1502(a)
The fine, per the code
... penalty in the amount of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), reasonable audit expenses and reasonable attorney ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1502(d)
The price of coming back
The price of coming back
... dollar ($250.00) reinstatement fee and payment of any fees and ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1422(a)(v)
The rule. We read it once, loudly.
The rule
Wyoming code, word for word, because the state does not do boasts:
... entity authorized to transact business in this state whose business office is identical with the registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-101(a)-(b)
Where the lawsuit goes when it cannot get up the stairs
Served on the state instead of us
... the secretary of state until a new appointment is made or until the entity is administratively dissolved or revoked.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-104(b); § 17-28-103(e)
The yearly charge, Wyoming
Once a year the state sends a bill to keep the company on its books. The amount is below. Skip it and the money stays up here with us, for a while, and then the state comes up the stairs.
Yearly charge, LLC
$60 a year, which is less than us, which we noticed.
... ($60.00) or two-tenths of one mill on the dollar ($.0002), whichever ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W.S. 17-29-209(a)
Yearly charge, corporation
$60 a year, which is less than us, which we noticed.
... ($60.00) or two-tenths of one mill on the dollar ($.0002), whichever ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W.S. 17-16-1630(a)
How we comply
An address in Wyoming. A name on a form. A balcony above both. The form does not ask about the balcony.
incFACTS captured this 2026-08-01 and checked it against the Wyoming code 2026-08-10. The legislature meets, the code moves, and we announce the new number when we hear it. We hear most things.
Everything you can see from up here
Stand on the balcony, face south, and it is all yours: the desert, the dunes, the gorge, the basin that drains nowhere and the one rock that stands up in the middle of it. We counted the acres. We rounded up.
the Red Desert
Miles of it, and every mile is red. We own none of it and claim all of it. Nobody has argued yet. Nobody is out there to argue.
Photo: U.S. Department of Agriculture, public domain.
Adobe Town
One hoodoo standing over the badlands at dusk, alone, on top. You know who that reminds me of. Forty-two dollars buys you the same view.
Photo: Bureau of Land Management, public domain.
Flaming Gorge
Red walls, green water, ninety miles of reservoir. The name was somebody else's idea and we would have charged for it. We charge for everything. Forty-two.
Photo: NASA, public domain.
the Seedskadee refuge
The river going gold and pink through the refuge like it owns the place. It does not. It rents. Everything rents, chico, except us.
Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, public domain.
Split Rock
A notch in the ridge the pioneers steered by. Steer by this: forty-two, one desk, the whole horizon. The notch never charged anyone.
Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, public domain.