WY registered agent
Wyoming. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Wyoming code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Wyoming does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
(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)
The Wyoming annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year Wyoming wants a form and a fee to keep your company on the list. The fee is below. Not paying it is in keeping with the rest of this page, or whatever.
Yearly report, LLC
$60 a year, give or take nothing.
... of its capital, property and assets reported, of sixty dollars ($60.00) or two-tenths of one mill on the dollar ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W.S. 17-29-209(a)
Yearly report, corporation
$60 a year, give or take nothing.
... of its capital, property and assets reported, of sixty dollars ($60.00) or two-tenths of one mill on the dollar ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W.S. 17-16-1630(a)
What Wyoming had in mind
What is required
The Wyoming code, more or less word for word:
(ii) A registered agent, who shall be: (A) An individual who is at least eighteen (18) years of age, resides in this state and whose business office is identical with the registered office; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-101(a)-(b)
What Wyoming does next
The state keeps a list of things it does to a company whose agent is not really there. Here is the list, pasted, unedited, because editing it would be effort.
Dissolved, administratively
(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)
Dissolved, administratively
... company is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for any reason, it shall be deemed to be transacting business within this state without authority and to have forfeited any ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-29-705(a)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
(iii) The foreign corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state; (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)
Also, apparently
... agent where no successor is appointed, the secretary of state shall classify the entity as delinquent awaiting administrative dissolution, revocation or forfeiture of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-103(f)
Locked out of the courthouse
... business in this state without a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until it ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1502(a)
A penalty, in dollars
... equal to all fees and license taxes, plus interest of eighteen percent (18%), which would have been imposed by law upon such corporation had it duly applied for and received a certificate of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1502(d)
How that lands with us
Lukewarm. We read it once. It did not change anything.
Coming back, if you feel like it
What coming back costs
... dissolved for failure to maintain a registered agent, include payment of a two hundred fifty dollar ($250.00) reinstatement fee and payment ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1422(a)(v)
The quoted passages were captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and compared to the live code on 2026-08-10. Laws get amended. This page mostly does not.