Utah Foreign Registration / Wyoming LLC owners
Wyoming LLCs and Utah registration
A Wyoming LLC doing business in Utah registers for $59 and gets its Wyoming certificate for $0. Year one comes to $137: $59 to register, $18 for the first Utah renewal and $60 to Wyoming.
Wyoming against Utah
| Point | Wyoming | Utah |
|---|---|---|
| Yearly bill | $60 minimum | $18 renewal |
| Certificate | $0 | Dated within 90 days |
| Registration | Already formed | $59 statement |
| Agent | A Wyoming registered agent | A second agent with a Utah street address |
Utah and Wyoming each hold a record and each bill separately.
When a Wyoming LLC registers
Once a Wyoming LLC does business in Utah beyond the Code's listed activities, it has to register; your facts can be tested by a Utah business lawyer.
The Wyoming certificate
The Wyoming certificate costs $0. Utah wants a certificate of existence, or a document of similar import, authorized by the lieutenant governor or other official who has custody of corporate records in the jurisdiction of formation.
Completing the statement
Wyoming goes in as the jurisdiction of formation and the agent has a Utah street address. The principal office is wherever management sits.
The name test
If the Wyoming name clashes with a Utah record, the company uses an alternate name for Utah, or the other holder consents in a record.
Wyoming's own bill
The $60 Wyoming yearly minimum goes on whatever happens in Utah.
What Utah wants each year
A $18 report by the last day of the anniversary month, the calendar month in which the registration took effect.
Home law keeps governing
Wyoming law governs the company's internal affairs and its members' liability, and a difference from Utah law does not stop registration.
An example in Ogden
Picture a two-member Wyoming LLC leasing a warehouse in Ogden. Its statement gives Wyoming as home, a management address as principal office and an Ogden agent. With a fresh Wyoming certificate it pays $59; a year on, it pays $18 to Utah and $60 to Wyoming.
Leaving
Withdraw with the Utah statement ahead of any Wyoming dissolution; see withdrawing.
First-year cost at a glance
For a Wyoming LLC, $137 covers the Utah registration, the first Utah renewal and Wyoming's $60 minimum. Filing day alone costs $59, since the Wyoming certificate is $0.
Utah's calendar
The Utah report can be filed up to 60 days early, and a renewal that arrives late costs $10 extra.
What the Division records
A copy of the filing with an acknowledgment of the date and time it was filed comes back to the filer. True.
Restricted words
In Utah, the words Olympic, Olympiad, Citius Altius Fortius and the number sequence 911 are restricted, and no name may imply a state agency.
What the Utah agent does
A registered agent forwards process, notices and demands to the entity at the address it last gave, and keeps its own filed information current. Naming an agent is an affirmation that the agent consents to serve.
Effective date
The registration takes effect when the Division files it, or at a later date and time stated in the filing that is no more than 90 days after filing.
Names that clash
A foreign entity whose name does not comply must adopt an alternate name before it registers, and need not also file a DBA. The holder of a conflicting name may consent in a record to the use of a name that is not distinguishable if the name includes an entity designator.
Sequence
The Wyoming certificate travels with the Utah statement and is dated, so request it as the final item.
Separate agents
A Wyoming agent serves Wyoming alone; Utah wants another, reachable at a street address in Utah, plus a Utah mailing address if different.
Paperwork to gather
Before you start: Wyoming's certificate, the precise name, when the LLC formed, where it is run from, who the Utah agent is, a working email and the signer with a title.
Keeping both records clean
The Wyoming minimum and the Utah renewal run on different calendars. Track both, and remember that a change of agent in one state has to be made again in the other.
Totals for Wyoming companies
From Wyoming: $0 for the certificate and a $60 minimum. From Utah: $59 to register and $18 yearly. Year one therefore totals $137.
A Wyoming LLC registers in Utah
Clear the Utah name
Or take an alternate name for Utah.
Appoint a Utah agent
A person or firm on a Utah street.
Request the Wyoming certificate
Priced at $0.
Write and sign
The Utah statement.
File
With $59.
Wyoming company questions
How much is the Wyoming certificate?
$0, which is no charge.
Do we need a second agent?
Yes. Utah needs one with a Utah street address.
Is a Utah renewal due every year?
Yes, at $18.
What remains owed to Wyoming?
The yearly minimum of $60.
What you pay
Register in Utah
+ $59 Utah fee
The Utah fee for an LLC is $59; checkout lists it on its own line. $199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.
$199
Utah Foreign Registration
- Foreign registration statement (foreign limited liability company), written from your answers
- Your home certificate, ordered to be fresh enough on filing day
- A Utah agent for service: our firm, or someone you pick
- The filing acknowledgment from the Division, returned to you
- Renewal: after the first year, the agent service renews at $149 a year
Sources
- Utah foreign registration statement, foreign limited liability company (Division of Corporations form)
- Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code, fee schedule
- Utah annual report and renewal form with instructions (Division of Corporations)
- Utah Code 16-1a-501 to 16-1a-510, foreign entities
- Utah application for authority to conduct affairs for a foreign corporation (Division of Corporations form)
- Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code
- Utah foreign registration statement, limited partnership (Division of Corporations form)
- Wyoming Secretary of State, Business Division fee schedule
- Utah Code 16-1a-301 to 16-1a-305, names
- Utah Code 16-1a-201 to 16-1a-212, filing requirements and annual report
- Utah Division of Corporations, business registration information changes
- Utah application for withdrawal of a foreign profit or non-profit corporation (Division of Corporations form)
- Utah Code 16-1a-401 to 16-1a-414, registered agent of an entity
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