Missouri Certificate of Authority / From Wyoming
A Wyoming company getting authority to operate in Missouri
A Wyoming LLC spends $165 in its first Missouri year: $105 to Missouri plus Wyoming's $60 annual minimum. A Wyoming corporation pays $155 for its certificate of authority. The home certificate Missouri asks for is free online from Wyoming, so refreshing it costs nothing.
Wyoming and Missouri compared
| Item | Wyoming | Missouri |
|---|---|---|
| Yearly | $60 minimum report | LLC none; corporation files a report |
| Certificate | Free online | Required, at most 60 days old |
| Filing | Already formed | $105 LLC, $155 corporation |
| Agent | The Wyoming agent stays | A separate Missouri agent is added |
Using the free certificate well
Print the Wyoming certificate close to the filing day, and print another if the first ages out. File the Wyoming annual report beforehand, since the certificate reports whether the company is in good order.
A second agent
Missouri has its own agent test, and the Wyoming agent does not satisfy it by default. An LLC needs an individual who lives in Missouri and keeps a business office at the registered office, or a Missouri or foreign corporation authorized to do business in Missouri with its business office at the registered office.
Filling in the Missouri form
Enter Wyoming as the state of formation, with the date from the articles of organization or incorporation. The purpose line describes the Missouri activity only. For the home-office item, give the address Wyoming requires the entity to keep. For an LLC, a manager, member or other authorized agent signs.
First-year arithmetic
Missouri's $105 plus Wyoming's $60 comes to $165. A Delaware LLC in the same position owes $505, so the whole difference is the home-state charge. Our own fee of $199 comes on top.
Privacy stops at the border
Wyoming's reputation for privacy does not travel. The Missouri filing is public, so the names and addresses of your agent, registered office and principal office all enter the record. Choose them before you file.
A worked case: a shop in St. Louis
Say a Wyoming LLC rents a small shop in St. Louis and puts staff in it. Staffed premises are ongoing business, so registration follows: a free Wyoming certificate, a St. Louis agent company, and Form LLC 4 for $105. It owes Missouri no annual report, and only the Wyoming minimum of $60 recurs.
Holding companies
If the Missouri footprint of a Wyoming holding company is a bank account, a loan, or a membership interest in an operating LLC, it falls on the excluded side of the statute. Once it manages property or employs people in the state, it no longer does. Recheck when its role changes.
Wyoming corporation or LLC: which route
The Missouri form follows the entity and not the home state. A Wyoming LLC registers on Form LLC 4 and receives a certificate of registration. A Wyoming corporation applies on Form Corp 42, then files its corporate registration report each year at $15 electronically. The corporation page has the details.
The order of work
Confirm Wyoming standing first, choose the Missouri agent and tell the signer when the filing is coming. Assemble the answers and the name. Then print the free certificate and have the signer sign the same day, so that the certificate's date is young when the filing goes in. A signature that slips costs nothing here, because a fresh free certificate takes minutes to print.
What the Wyoming certificate shows
The Wyoming certificate confirms that the annual report is on file and the company is in good order. If a report is overdue, file it before printing the certificate.
A Wyoming corporation
A Wyoming corporation pays $155 to Missouri for its certificate of authority, and $170 with the first electronic report. The Wyoming annual minimum is separate.
Both states, one calendar
Missouri asks nothing yearly of an LLC. Wyoming's report follows Wyoming's own date, so enter that date in the company calendar the day you register. Should good standing lapse in Wyoming, the Missouri registration becomes vulnerable, because it rests on a good standing certificate, and the next amendment would call for a fresh one.
Steps for a Wyoming entity
Check Wyoming standing
The annual report should be filed.
Pick the Missouri agent
An office in Missouri.
Order the certificate
Free online, inside 60 days of filing.
Complete the Missouri form
Wyoming as the state of formation.
File
Pay the Missouri fee for the entity type.
Leaving Missouri
A Wyoming LLC cancels on Form LLC 8 for $25, and a corporation obtains a certificate of withdrawal for $25. Wyoming's report carries on regardless. See the withdrawal page.
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.
Wyoming entity questions
Will Missouri take a Wyoming certificate?
Yes, if it is authenticated and its date is inside the limit.
Can my Wyoming agent act for me here?
Only with Missouri authority and an office in the state.
Is the Missouri record public?
Yes.
What we charge and what Missouri charges
Start my Missouri filing
Missouri$199
+ the Missouri fee for your entity
- The Missouri form that matches your entity type, completed from your answers
- Your home-state certificate checked against Missouri's 60-day limit
- A Missouri registered agent and office from us, or the one you name
- The filed record returned to you
- Renewal: after the first year, the agent service renews at $149 a year
Missouri's amounts are $105 for an LLC, $155 for a corporation and $25 for a nonprofit, listed apart from ours. $199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.
Sources
- Missouri Secretary of State, schedule of fees and charges
- Missouri Form LLC 4, foreign LLC registration
- Missouri Form Corp 42, foreign corporation certificate of authority
- Missouri Form Corp 55A, foreign nonprofit certificate of authority
- Missouri Revised Statutes 347.153, registration of foreign LLCs
- Wyoming Secretary of State, Business Division fee schedule
- RSMo 347.030, registered office and agent of a limited liability company
- Delaware Division of Corporations, LLC/LP/GP annual tax
- Missouri Revised Statutes 347.163, failure to register
- RSMo 351.125, fees for the corporate registration report
- RSMo 347.160, amended certificate of registration
- Missouri Form LLC 8, foreign LLC cancellation
Need a Missouri certificate of authority?
Tell us the entity type and we line up the form, the certificate and the agent.