WY registered agent
Registered agent service in Wyoming. $24 a year. Yes.
Every Wyoming company must appoint a registered agent at a street address in the state. What follows is the statute, quoted where it matters, and our position on it, which is brief.
The statutory requirement in Wyoming
Requirement
The Wyoming code provides:
... (B) A domestic business entity whose business office is identical with the registered office and which has a written agreement creating an agency relationship with an individual providing for acceptance of service of process as provided in W.S. 17-28-104; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-101(a)-(b)
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
(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)
Enforcement in Wyoming
The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.
Administrative dissolution 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)
Administrative dissolution by the state
... acquired under the laws thereof ... Unless compliance is made within sixty (60) days ... 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)
Revocation of foreign authority
... (iv) The foreign corporation does not inform the secretary of state under W.S. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1530(a)(iii)-(iv)
Further
... secretary of state shall classify the entity as delinquent awaiting administrative dissolution, revocation or forfeiture of its articles of organization as appropriate.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-103(f)
Loss of standing to sue
... certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until it obtains a certificate of authority.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1502(a)
Pecuniary penalty
... and received a certificate of authority ... and in addition shall be liable for a penalty in the amount of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), reasonable audit expenses and reasonable attorney fees.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1502(d)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... a registered agent, include payment of a two hundred fifty dollar ($250.00) reinstatement fee and payment of any fees and taxes then delinquent.
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1422(a)(v)
The Wyoming annual report, which you may also decline
Wyoming levies an annual charge to keep a company in good standing. The amount is below. Declining it is consistent with everything else on this page.
Annual report, limited liability company
$60 per annum.
... assets reported, of sixty dollars ($60.00) or two-tenths of one mill on the dollar ($.0002), whichever is greater
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W.S. 17-29-209(a)
Annual report, corporation
$60 per annum.
... assets reported, of sixty dollars ($60.00) or two-tenths of one mill on the dollar ($.0002), whichever is greater
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W.S. 17-16-1630(a)
Our position
We decline. At this price you may have expected otherwise.
Statutory text captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01, verified against the code on 2026-08-10. Statutes are amended. This page is not.