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Wyoming, $8 a year. This is where it happens.

One state. One statute. Every consequence the code can name. The state wrote the long parts. We wrote the short ones. Read theirs. Ours is the trailer.

The rule. Based on actual statute.

The rule

From the Wyoming code. Verbatim. No score, no cut:

... process as provided in W.S. 17-28-104; (C) A foreign business entity authorized ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-101(a)-(b)

The courthouse, when the chair is empty

Served on the state instead of us

... service of process on the business entity shall be upon the secretary of state until a ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-104(b); § 17-28-103(e)

The fee to return

The fee to return

... of a two hundred fifty dollar ($250.00) reinstatement fee and payment of any fees and taxes then ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1422(a)(v)

Where we stand

One address in Wyoming. One chair. The chair has never been sat in. The address has never been wrong.

The yearly bill in Wyoming

Every year the bill arrives. Every year it keeps the company on the books. The amount is below. Skip it and save. Skip it twice and see what the state does. The answer is on this page.

The yearly charge, LLC

$60. Yearly. No intermission.

... reported, of sixty dollars ($60.00) or two-tenths of one mill on the ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W.S. 17-29-209(a)

The yearly charge, corporation

$60. Yearly. No intermission.

... reported, of sixty dollars ($60.00) or two-tenths of one mill on the ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W.S. 17-16-1630(a)

What the state does next

Code text. Unedited. The state does not record a commentary track.

Struck from the books

... registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1420(a)(iii)-(iv)

Struck from the books

... under the laws thereof ... Unless compliance is made within sixty (60) days ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-29-705(a)

Out-of-state company: authority revoked

... that its registered agent has resigned, or that its registered office has been discontinued within thirty (30) days of ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1530(a)(iii)-(iv)

Also in the code

... entity as delinquent awaiting administrative dissolution, revocation or forfeiture of ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-103(f)

The courthouse door: closed to you

... may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1502(a)

The fine, per the code

... 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 ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1502(d)

incFACTS. Captured 2026-08-01. Checked against the Wyoming code 2026-08-10. The legislature meets, the code moves. This page follows, eventually, in a later release.

Shot on location

Every great picture needs a landscape too large for the story. Wyoming has five we could not afford to visit. The photographs are by agencies that could.

The Yellowstone River threading the yellow and red walls of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.

the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

Yellow rock. A river a thousand feet down. A canyon that took the river longer than any registered agent has been in business. We did not cut it. It cut itself.

Photo: National Park Service, public domain.

The Lower Falls of the Yellowstone dropping into the canyon between snow patched rock.

the Lower Falls

Three hundred feet of water, falling, every second, for free. The one thing in this state that drops harder than our price. Cue the drums. The falls provide them.

Photo: National Park Service, public domain.

Squaretop Mountain and White Rock mirrored in the still water of Green River Lakes.

Green River Lakes

Two lakes, a square-topped mountain, and a river starting out with everything ahead of it. Every story begins somewhere. Ours began with an eight and stopped there.

Photo: U.S. Forest Service, public domain.

Snow streaked Teton peaks rising straight out of the dark blue water of Jenny Lake.

Jenny Lake

Still water at the foot of the mountains. Boats cross it. Boats come back. Nothing that goes to our office does either of those things.

Photo: National Park Service, public domain.

Sunrise lighting the jagged peaks of the Teton Range orange above dark forested slopes.

the Teton Range

No foothills. No warning. A wall of granite straight out of the valley floor. Some things need no build-up. Eight dollars is one. This is the other.

Photo: National Park Service, public domain.