The Business Division of the Wyoming Secretary of State, in Suite 101 of the Herschler Building East at 122 West 25th Street in Cheyenne, on 307-777-7311 and at Business@wyo.gov from eight to five Mountain time, keeps the register of corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, trade names and commercial registered agents, and its business page leads to WyoBiz, the online system where entities are formed, reports filed and records searched.
The filing search takes a filing name with starts with or contains matching, or a filing ID in the form 2000-000123456, and returns the entity type, status, formation date, registered agent and the filing history with images of the documents. The questions page defines good standing narrowly: it means the paperwork and fees are current with the office and is not an endorsement of the company, a point worth remembering before relying on a free certificate. For Wyoming businesses by place, see the Wyoming county pages.
- Free online, twenty dollars on paper: a certificate of good standing, printed from wyobiz.wyo.gov or ordered from the division.
- Sixty dollars or $.0002 of Wyoming assets: the annual report license tax of a profit corporation, LLC, LP or LLP, due the first day of the anniversary month; a nonprofit pays twenty five.
- Sixty days: the notice a delinquent company receives before administrative dissolution, with two years to reinstate.
- Seven hundred dollars, or fourteen hundred: next day and same day expedited filing under the fee schedule of July 1, 2026.
Written by SearchSystems.net from Wyoming's own systems: the Wyoming Secretary of State business page, the maintain your business page, the business questions and answers page, the be alert page on scams, the online business services page, the commercial registered agent page, the Business Division fee schedule, effective July 1, 2026, the division notice on scams targeting Wyoming businesses, the division guide to tracing old stock, the WyoBiz filing search, Title 17 of the Wyoming Statutes, corporations, partnerships and associations, each read on October 15, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.
A license tax on the first day of the anniversary month
Wyoming calls its annual report a license tax. Under W.S. 17-16-1630 a corporation files, on or before the first day of the month in which it was incorporated or registered each year, a certification signed under penalty of perjury that gives its name and home state, the address of its principal office, the names and addresses of its officers and directors, and the value of its capital, property and assets located and employed in Wyoming, and pays a tax of sixty dollars or two hundredths of a percent of that value, whichever is greater; W.S. 17-29-209 sets the same certification and the same tax for a limited liability company on the first day of its organization month.
The fee schedule in force since July 1, 2026 prints the sixty dollar or $.0002 figure for profit corporations, LLCs, limited partnerships and limited liability partnerships and twenty five dollars for a nonprofit, and the maintain your business page says the report is filed on WyoBiz by filing ID with a card or check and that the division sends no paper reminder.
Sixty days of notice, then two years to come back
W.S. 17-16-1420 lists the grounds on which the Secretary of State may dissolve a corporation administratively: a report or license tax unfiled or unpaid when due, sixty days without a registered agent or office, sixty days after the agent change went unreported, ownership by a foreign adversary, a false statement in a filed document, and an unanswered subpoena, and it allows the office to classify a company as delinquent awaiting administrative dissolution so that the search shows the trouble before the dissolution.
Under 17-16-1421 the office serves written notice and dissolves the corporation if the ground is not cured within sixty days, and under 17-16-1422 the company may apply for reinstatement within two years, which the office may deny for fraud. For a limited liability company 17-29-705 works the same way: an LLC without an agent or with a fee unpaid is notified, becomes defunct sixty days later, and may revive within two years by paying the reinstatement fee and a two hundred fifty dollar penalty, keeping its name through the two years.
The fee schedule prices the reinstatement at one hundred dollars for a tax default and two hundred fifty for a corporation or three hundred fifty for an LLC dissolved for want of an agent.
The certificate that costs nothing online
The fee schedule states that certificates of good standing are free on wyobiz.wyo.gov and that a paper certificate from the division costs twenty dollars, with a certification of a document at ten dollars and copies at fifty cents a page for the first ten pages and fifteen cents after. The online services page lists what else the system does without a visit: form a new entity, file the annual report, change the registered agent, order copies and run the name availability check.
Routine filings are processed in order received; expedited service costs seven hundred dollars for the next business day and one thousand four hundred for the same day. Formation fees on the same schedule are one hundred dollars for articles of incorporation or organization, one hundred fifty for a foreign certificate of authority, sixty for an amendment or dissolution, and one hundred for a trade name registration with a fifty dollar renewal and a thirty dollar name reservation. A bulk download of the database costs eight hundred fifty dollars a month.
The agents who stand in for more than ten companies
Wyoming is unusual in licensing the agents. The commercial registered agent page explains that anyone who serves as registered agent for more than ten Wyoming entities must register as a commercial registered agent under W.S. 17-28-101 through 17-28-111, file an annual registration at fifty dollars under the fee schedule, and keep a physical Wyoming address where the companies it represents can be served; the division publishes the list, so a search that returns the same agent for hundreds of entities is showing a licensed business, not a coincidence.
The record otherwise names what the annual certification requires, the officers and directors of a corporation, and never the shareholders or the members of an LLC, which the statute does not ask for. The old stock guide describes how to trace a long dissolved Wyoming corporation through the filing history and the merger and name change documents on file. For the people behind a Wyoming company, the Wyoming people search guide lists the state sources.
The texts and invoices that do not come from Cheyenne
The division scam notice says the office never sends text messages, never sends invoices, and emails only from a wyo.gov address, and names the schemes it has seen: phishing emails, messages spoofing SOS_AnnualReports@wyo.gov, texts carrying links to fake report sites, a mailing from Annual Records Service offering a Form 5102 beneficial ownership filing for one hundred nineteen dollars, and a WY Corporate Certificates letter selling a ninety dollar certificate the state issues free.
The be alert page repeats the rule that every legitimate report is filed and every legitimate certificate printed at wyobiz.wyo.gov. For a dispute over a Wyoming company, the Wyoming court records guide covers the district and circuit courts.
Questions about looking up a Wyoming business
Related Wyoming records
The other Wyoming guides on this site are the Wyoming public records law guide for the Public Records Act, the Wyoming court records guide for the district and circuit courts, the Wyoming property records guide for the county clerks and assessors, and the Wyoming county pages for every county office.