Alabama Foreign Registration / Wyoming LLC in Alabama
A Wyoming LLC registering in Alabama
A Wyoming LLC that starts doing business in Alabama files the Foreign LLC Application for Registration for $150, with a $25 name reservation attached. Wyoming's report and license tax, $60 at the least, carries on separately. Alabama asks for no Wyoming certificate, and the cost of a Wyoming good standing certificate does not enter the picture.
Wyoming and Alabama side by side
| Wyoming (home) | Alabama (registration) | |
|---|---|---|
| Filing | Formation already done | Foreign LLC Application for Registration, $150 |
| Yearly cost | Report and license tax, $60 at the least, due first day of your anniversary month | Revenue Department tax return, exempt at $100 or less |
| Agent | A Wyoming registered agent | An Alabama resident or registered entity, with an Alabama street office |
| Certificate | Wyoming issues its certificate at no charge | Not requested on the application |
| Name | Wyoming record | Reservation at $25 |
Wyoming is cheap to keep, Alabama adds its own layer
A Wyoming LLC's upkeep is low: the minimum report and license tax is $60 a year. None of that reduces what Alabama charges. The Alabama registration costs $150 once, plus the reservation, and the Department of Revenue's business privilege tax rules apply from the moment the LLC registers. An LLC whose calculated tax is $100 or less owes nothing, but the Wyoming saving does not carry into Alabama as an exemption.
Signing the existence statement
Instead of a certificate, the Alabama application has the signer certify that the LLC validly exists under the laws of Wyoming. Before signing, check the Wyoming record: report filed, license tax paid, registered agent in place. A Wyoming LLC that has fallen behind should be brought back into good standing before anyone signs item 8.
Wyoming details on the Alabama form
In item 1 the Wyoming name goes in, ending included. Item 6 is Wyoming, and item 7 is the date the Wyoming LLC was formed. The principal office in item 5 needs a street address for wherever the company is actually run from. Items 9 and 10 are for the Alabama agent and office, never the Wyoming agent.
Names
The Alabama name must satisfy the endings in the statute, limited liability company, L.L.C. or LLC. If an Alabama entity holds the same name, the LLC reserves a different name for use in Alabama, and the governing authority adopts it by resolution. The reservation form asks for the legal name and, separately, any fictitious name requested.
Wyoming and Alabama dates side by side
| When | Obligation | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| By the first of the anniversary month | Wyoming report and license tax payment | $60 at the least |
| two and a half months after the entity registers with the Secretary of State | Alabama initial privilege tax return, if required | Depends on Alabama net worth |
| Yearly after that | Alabama privilege tax return, if the tax is above the exemption | Exempt at $100 or less |
| Within 60 days of moving the agent or office | Alabama statement of change | $100 |
The Alabama tax return next to the Wyoming report
The two filings answer to different agencies and share no deadline. Wyoming's report and license tax is paid to Wyoming and, as the table shows, is due on the first day of the anniversary month. Alabama's return goes to the Department of Revenue, and its first edition arrives two and a half months after the entity registers with the Secretary of State. Keep a separate Alabama reminder, because the Department says the privilege tax runs every registered year until withdrawal, with no break for a quiet year. The exemption for calculated tax of $100 or less means an LLC with that little tax files nothing. The yearly tax page explains how to check.
If the Wyoming LLC later drops its Wyoming registration for any reason, tell Alabama quickly. A home-state certificate that the entity has been terminated is itself a ground on which the Secretary of State may start revocation of the Alabama registration (Ala. Code 10A-1-7.12(5)).
If the Wyoming LLC has been working in Alabama already
Register now. Each year of delinquency can draw a late fee of $150 once the Alabama work has gone past 90 days, and in the meantime the LLC has no standing to start a case in an Alabama court (Ala. Code 10A-1-7.21(a)). The late filing page explains both, and being a Wyoming company changes neither.
Registering a Wyoming LLC in Alabama
Check Wyoming standing
Report filed and license tax paid, so item 8 is true.
Reserve the name
$25, with any Alabama-only name.
Find an Alabama agent
A resident or a registered entity with a street office.
File
Two typed originals, $150.
Diary Wyoming and Alabama
Two calendars, one for each state.
Wyoming LLC questions
Is Alabama cheaper for a Wyoming LLC?
No. The fee is $150 for every foreign LLC.
Do I need a Wyoming certificate?
Not for the Alabama application.
Can my Wyoming agent serve in Alabama?
Only if it is registered in Alabama with an Alabama office.
Will Alabama see that my Wyoming LLC is in good standing?
The signer vouches for it in item 8. If Wyoming later reports the entity as terminated, Alabama can start revocation.
Does a Wyoming LLC need a different Alabama form?
No. It uses the same Foreign LLC Application for Registration as every foreign LLC, at $150.
Our charge and the state fee, itemized
Register in Alabama
+ $150 state fee
- The Alabama name reservation, requested first so its certificate can travel with the filing
- The Foreign LLC Application for Registration or the Foreign Corporation Application for Registration, completed and signed for you
- An Alabama registered agent and office: ours, or the one you keep
- Submission to the Secretary of State and the filed registration sent back to you
- Renewal: after the first year, the agent service renews at $149 a year
$199
Alabama
Start my Alabama registrationCheckout lists our charge and the Alabama fee on separate lines before you pay. $199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.
Where these facts come from
- Alabama Secretary of State, LLC filings
- Alabama Secretary of State fee schedule
- Alabama Secretary of State, Foreign LLC Application for Registration (form PDF)
- Alabama Secretary of State, Foreign Corporation (business or nonprofit) Application for Registration (form PDF)
- Alabama Secretary of State, foreign corporations
- Wyoming Secretary of State, Business Division fee schedule
- Name reservation request form for foreign entities
- Wyoming Secretary of State, Business Division
- Wyoming Secretary of State, foreign LLC application for certificate of authority and instructions
- Wyoming Secretary of State, business questions and answers
- Alabama Department of Revenue, who files the business privilege tax return
- Code of Alabama 10A-1-7.07 (entity name)
- Alabama Department of Revenue, the initial business privilege tax return
- Alabama Secretary of State, Change of Registered Agent or Registered Office by Entity (form PDF)
- Code of Alabama 10A-1-7.12 (grounds for revocation)
- Code of Alabama, section 10A-1-7.23
- Code of Alabama, section 10A-1-7.21
Doing business in Alabama from another state?
Order online and we reserve the name, prepare the application and file it in Montgomery.