Alaska requires no member/manager name on the Articles of Organization itself, but managers (or members, if member-managed) and any owner of a 5%-or-greater interest, plus their ownership percentage, must be named on the recurring Biennial Report on its public LLC filing. Alaska's Biennial Report — not its Articles of Organization — is where ownership becomes public, so a Wyoming holding LLC has to be named as the member before the first biennial filing, and stay named that way on every renewal. See our Wyoming holding company guide and full list of anonymous LLC states for more.
$250
Articles of Organization filing fee
5%+ owners
Named on the recurring Biennial Report, not the Articles
§ 10.50.380
Exclusive-remedy charging order, single-member included
$0
State personal income tax
Alaska is candid about where its privacy actually breaks: not at the $250 Articles of Organization, which asks for no member or manager name, but at the $100 Biennial Report, due every two years, which requires naming the LLC's managers or members and disclosing anyone who owns 5% or more of the company along with their exact percentage. That makes Alaska one of the least private states in this guide once the first reporting cycle comes due. What Alaska brings to the table instead is a genuinely strong asset-protection and tax profile: AS § 10.50.380 makes the charging order the exclusive remedy and explicitly covers single-member LLCs, and there's no state income tax at all. A Wyoming holding LLC named as the member before that first Biennial Report is what actually delivers privacy here — the Alaska filing alone will not.
Alaska's Articles of Organization don't ask for a member or manager name up front — but the state's Biennial Report, due every two years, requires the names and addresses of the LLC's managers (or members, if member-managed) and, separately, the name, address, and percentage interest of anyone owning 5% or more of the company. That combination makes Alaska one of the least private states in this guide on a rolling basis: even an LLC that files a clean Articles of Organization has its ownership pulled into the public record the moment the first Biennial Report comes due.
Because Alaska's exposure comes from the Biennial Report rather than the initial Articles of Organization, the privacy fix has to be in place before that first report is ever due (January 2 of the year following formation, then every other year after): name a Wyoming holding LLC as the Alaska LLC's member, so the Biennial Report's 5%-or-greater-owner disclosure names the Wyoming entity instead of an individual. Alaska is also worth pairing with a Wyoming parent for reasons beyond privacy — its charging-order statute (AS § 10.50.380) is exclusive-remedy and explicitly covers single-member LLCs, and Alaska has no state income tax, so the combination stacks Wyoming's name privacy on top of an operating state that already has a strong asset-protection and tax profile.
Naming a Wyoming LLC as the Alaska member keeps an individual's name off Alaska's public Biennial Report, but it doesn't change federal law: beneficial owners of both entities must still be reported to FinCEN under the Corporate Transparency Act, which is not a public database.
AS § 10.50.380 — exclusive remedy protection, expressly covering single-member LLCs. AS § 10.50.380 states that a charging order is the exclusive remedy a judgment creditor of a member has against that member's interest, expressly barring foreclosure and other remedies against the LLC itself, and the statute draws no distinction between single-member and multi-member LLCs — Alaska is consistently grouped with Wyoming, Nevada, and Delaware as one of the strongest charging-order-exclusivity states, though it has less LLC-specific case law than Wyoming or Delaware.
Alaska has no state personal income tax, no statewide sales tax, and no franchise tax on LLCs. The recurring state obligation is the $100 Biennial Report, due January 2 of even-numbered years (a $37.50 late fee applies after February 1), plus a separate $50/year Alaska Business License most businesses must hold.
Note: Confirm the current $250 Articles of Organization fee and $100 Biennial Report fee directly at commerce.alaska.gov/web/cbpl — and note that the Biennial Report's 5%-or-greater ownership disclosure is the single most important fact on this page to verify before filing, since it is what actually determines whether an individual's name becomes public in Alaska.
Not on the Articles of Organization itself. But Alaska's Biennial Report — due every two years, starting January 2 of the year after formation — requires the names and addresses of managers or members, plus anyone owning 5% or more of the company and their exact percentage. That report, not the initial filing, is where ownership becomes public.
Name a Wyoming holding LLC — not yourself — as the member before the first Biennial Report is due. Because Alaska's disclosure happens on a recurring filing rather than at formation, the structure has to be in place from day one and kept in place on every subsequent biennial renewal.
Yes, among the strongest in the country. AS § 10.50.380 makes the charging order the exclusive remedy against a member's interest, bars foreclosure, and applies the same way regardless of whether the LLC has one member or several — comparable to Wyoming, Nevada, and Delaware, though with less LLC-specific case law than Wyoming.
Bottom line: Alaska's privacy problem isn't the Articles of Organization — it's the recurring Biennial Report's 5%-owner disclosure — so a Wyoming holding LLC has to be named as the member before that first filing and kept in place on every renewal.