Alabama does not require member or manager names in its own public LLC filing. Alabama already omits member and manager names from its own filing; a Wyoming holding LLC mainly cleans up the organizer field and keeps every recurring Business Privilege Tax filing pointed at an entity rather than an individual. See our Wyoming holding company guide and full list of anonymous LLC states for more.
$200
Certificate of Formation filing fee
Organizer only
No member/manager name required on the filing
§ 10A-5A-5.03(f)
Exclusive-remedy charging order, no SMLLC carve-out
$0 report
SOS annual report repealed in 2024
Alabama doesn't force a member or manager's name onto its Certificate of Formation ($200), filed under Ala. Code § 10A-5A-2.01 — those fields are optional, and Alabama's charging-order statute (§ 10A-5A-5.03(f)) applies its exclusive-remedy protection evenly to single-member and multi-member LLCs alike. The one name Alabama always publishes is the organizer who signs the certificate, and Alabama uniquely requires a mandatory Certificate of Name Reservation before that certificate can even be filed. Because Alabama's own filing already keeps ownership off the record, a Wyoming holding LLC here is mainly about cleaning up the organizer signature and keeping every recurring Business Privilege Tax filing pointed at an entity rather than an individual.
Alabama's Certificate of Formation, filed under Ala. Code § 10A-5A-2.01, does not require the name of any member or manager — those fields are optional, and anything voluntarily attached becomes part of the public record. What the statute does require is the organizer's name and signature, which is why a formation service typically fills that role instead of the owner. Alabama also requires a mandatory Certificate of Name Reservation before the Certificate of Formation can even be filed, but that reservation is a separate filing from the formation document itself and doesn't by itself add a member or manager name to the record.
Because Alabama's Certificate of Formation doesn't ask for a member or manager name — only the organizer's — a Wyoming holding LLC named as the Alabama LLC's member doesn't fill a gap the way it does in a true disclosure state; the gap Alabama actually has is the organizer signature, which is why a formation service (not the owner) should sign that document. Where a Wyoming parent adds more than tidiness is asset protection and the annual filing calendar: Alabama's charging-order statute (Ala. Code § 10A-5A-5.03(f)) already applies evenly to single-member LLCs, comparable to Wyoming's own, but Alabama's mandatory Business Privilege Tax return is one more recurring filing where a careless entry could put an individual's name on the record — a Wyoming member keeps that field pointed at an entity instead.
Whatever Alabama's Certificate of Formation shows, the LLC's beneficial owners — and any Wyoming holding LLC's owners — must still be reported to FinCEN under the Corporate Transparency Act, a federal database that is not open to public search.
Ala. Code § 10A-5A-5.03(f) — exclusive remedy protection, with no carve-out for single-member LLCs. Alabama's statute makes the charging order the exclusive remedy against a member's transferable interest, and its text applies regardless of how many members the LLC has — there's no single-member carve-out the way Arkansas's statute has, and no Alabama appellate decision has stripped the protection from a solo-owner company the way Florida's Olmstead ruling did.
Alabama repealed its Secretary of State annual report effective October 1, 2024 (Act 2024-213). The only recurring state filing is the Business Privilege Tax (Form PPT), due March 15 for multi-member LLCs or April 15 for single-member LLCs (the same date as the LLC's federal return) — and any entity whose calculated tax is $100 or less owes nothing and files no return. Pass-through income is taxed to members at Alabama's graduated 2% to 5% rates.
Note: Confirm the current $200 Certificate of Formation fee and the Business Privilege Tax due date (March 15 for multi-member LLCs, April 15 for single-member LLCs) directly at sos.alabama.gov and revenue.alabama.gov — Alabama's BPT rules and the 2024 repeal of the old annual report are recent enough that a fresh check is worthwhile before relying on either figure in a specific filing.
No. Alabama's Certificate of Formation, under Ala. Code § 10A-5A-2.01, leaves member and manager names optional — the one name that is always public is the organizer who signs the certificate. Alabama also requires a mandatory name reservation before you can file, but that's a separate step from naming an owner.
Use a formation service — not yourself — as the organizer who signs the Certificate of Formation, since that's the one field Alabama always publishes. Naming a Wyoming holding LLC as the member on your (non-public) operating agreement adds Wyoming's own name privacy plus its charging-order strength on top.
Strong and even-handed. Ala. Code § 10A-5A-5.03(f) makes the charging order the exclusive remedy against a member's interest regardless of how many members the LLC has, with no single-member carve-out — a genuine advantage Alabama doesn't always get credit for, and one reason a Wyoming parent above an Alabama subsidiary is more about layering privacy than fixing a protection gap.
Bottom line: Alabama's Certificate of Formation doesn't require a member or manager name — only the organizer does that — so a Wyoming parent here is mainly about the organizer field and the recurring Business Privilege Tax filing, not fixing a privacy gap Alabama already lacks.