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A foreign corporation's Wyoming certificate of authority

A foreign profit corporation applies on the Foreign Profit Corporation Application for Certificate of Authority, pays $150 and attaches an original certificate of existence or good standing, dated not more than sixty days before the filing in Wyoming and authenticated by the Secretary of State or other official who keeps company records where the company was formed. We prepare the filing for $199.

The corporation filing in short

Form: Foreign Profit Corporation Application for Certificate of Authority
Fee: $150
Home paper: An original, dated inside 60 days
Items: 10 on the form
Every year: License tax from $60
Signed by: The chairman of the board, the president or another officer

What the form covers

The application sets out the corporation's name; its home state or country; its date of incorporation, which must match the certificate; its duration; its mailing and principal office addresses; its Wyoming registered agent and office; the names and usual business addresses of its current directors and officers; the date it began or will begin business in Wyoming; and its acceptance of the Wyoming constitution.

The home certificate

A foreign corporation attaches an original certificate of existence or good standing, dated not more than sixty days before the filing in Wyoming and authenticated by the Secretary of State or other official who keeps company records where the company was formed. The incorporation date on the form must agree with it. The registered agent signs a consent page that completes the packet.

Directors and officers

A grid lists the corporation's current officers and directors with their usual business addresses, office by office. The entries should match the corporation's own records on the day the form is signed.

The start date and the constitution

Like the LLC form, the corporation form states the date business began or will begin in Wyoming and accepts the state's constitution.

Who signs

The chairman of the board, the president or another officer signs for the corporation.

Until a certificate issues

No foreign corporation can transact business in Wyoming without one. A corporation that does so owes all the fees and license taxes that would have been imposed had the company applied and received a certificate and then filed every report, with eighteen percent interest, plus a penalty of five thousand dollars, reasonable audit expenses and reasonable attorney fees, and the attorney general may collect.

The yearly tax

A foreign profit corporation pays on the same schedule as an LLC: two-tenths of one mill on the dollar of assets located and employed in Wyoming, never below $60.

Amending, reviving and leaving

An amended certificate for a corporation is $60. Reviving a corporation that lost its registered agent is $250, and one that lapsed on tax pays $100. To leave, the corporation files its own certificate of withdrawal form.

What a corporation pays Wyoming

Filing	Price
Certificate of authority	$150
Amended certificate	$60
Revival after a tax lapse	$100
Revival after losing the agent	$250
Yearly license tax	From $60

How it differs from the LLC form

The corporation form runs to 10 items against the LLC form's 9, and it adds the officers and directors grid. Everything else, from the certificate to the mailing to the yearly tax, is the same.

A Delaware corporation opening in Cheyenne

Picture a Delaware corporation that opens a Cheyenne branch: a local agent, a $50 Delaware certificate, then $150 to Wyoming in the mail, $200 in all before the first license tax.

The floor over five years

A corporation that pays only the floor for five years has paid Wyoming $450 including the application, with its home certificate extra.

Nonprofits and limited partnerships

A nonprofit's Wyoming charges are $50 to apply and a $25 annual report fee. A foreign limited partnership pays $150. Both have forms of their own; ask us before you order.

How the order runs

We take the corporation's particulars, set the date for ordering the home certificate, finish the form and the consent page, and assemble the packet. Our fee is $199 against Wyoming's $150.

A corporation's route through us

Give us the particulars
Name, home state, date of incorporation, addresses, agent, officers and directors.
Look over the drafts
The form, then the agent's consent page.
Order the certificate on the date we give
Its date has to fall inside the 60-day window.
We assemble and send
With the $150 fee.

Registered agent: first year included, then $149 a year

$199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.

Corporation questions

What is the state charge to a foreign corporation?

$150 to apply, then the license tax each year.

How old may the corporation's home certificate be?

Dated within 60 days before filing.

What does amending cost?

$60.

Can a corporation file online?

No. Its application goes by mail too.

Whose signature goes on the form?

The chairman of the board, the president or another officer.

What does reviving a corporation without an agent cost?

$250.

The price

Register in Wyoming

The Wyoming application and the agent consent form, completed from a short questionnaire
A cut-off date for ordering your home certificate, so it is still inside the window when the packet leaves
A Wyoming registered agent with a street address, from us or of your choosing
The certificate of authority Wyoming issues, forwarded to you
Renewal: after the first year, the agent service renews at $149 a year

Wyoming

$199

+ $150 Wyoming fee

$150 is what Wyoming charges an LLC. Other entities pay other amounts, listed on the cost page. $199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.

Sources

Working in Wyoming already?

Start the packet today. The state's penalty clock runs for every year the company works without authority.