Arizona requires member names (if member-managed) or manager names plus any member owning 20% or more (if manager-managed) on its public LLC filing. Arizona publishes whichever name sits in the member or manager slot on the Articles of Organization, and — because there's no annual report — never asks again, so the Wyoming holding LLC has to be correctly named from the very first filing. See our Wyoming holding company guide and full list of anonymous LLC states for more.
$50
Articles of Organization filing fee
Names public
Member or manager listed on the ACC record
§ 29-3503(E)
Exclusive-remedy charging order (2020 amendment)
None
LLC annual report requirement
Arizona is an honest exception among low-cost formation states: it does not hide ownership on its own filing. The Articles of Organization ($50), filed with the Arizona Corporation Commission under A.R.S. § 29-3201, require naming every member (if member-managed) or every manager plus any 20%-or-greater member (if manager-managed), and that record is public through the Arizona Business Center. Because Arizona has no LLC annual report, whatever name lands on that initial filing stays the public record indefinitely — there's no later filing to quietly fix it. To keep an individual's name off an Arizona LLC, a Wyoming holding LLC is named as the member or manager from the very first filing. Arizona still brings real value to the structure: no franchise tax, no annual report fee, a flat 2.5% income tax, and — since a 2020 amendment — exclusive-remedy charging-order protection (A.R.S. § 29-3503(E)) for every LLC regardless of member count.
Arizona's Articles of Organization, filed with the Arizona Corporation Commission under A.R.S. § 29-3201, require every member's name and address if the LLC is member-managed, or every manager's name and address plus any member holding a 20%-or-greater interest if it's manager-managed. That information is public and searchable through the Arizona Business Center — the portal that fully replaced the legacy eCorp system in January 2026. Because Arizona has no LLC annual report of any kind, whatever is disclosed at formation is never refreshed by a later periodic filing, for better or worse.
Because A.R.S. § 29-3201 forces a name onto the public Articles of Organization — every member if member-managed, or every manager plus any 20%-or-greater member if manager-managed — the only way to keep an individual off Arizona's record is to name a Wyoming holding LLC in that slot before the first filing, not after. That decision matters more in Arizona than in most states because Arizona has no LLC annual report: there's no later periodic filing that would let you quietly correct an initial mistake, and an amendment leaves the original disclosure in the public filing history permanently. Arizona pairs well with a Wyoming parent for reasons beyond privacy too — a 2020 amendment (A.R.S. § 29-3503(E)) extended exclusive-remedy charging-order protection to every Arizona LLC regardless of member count, and the state charges no franchise tax and no annual report fee at all.
A Wyoming manager or member keeps an individual's name off Arizona's public ACC record, but it doesn't change federal law: beneficial owners of both the Arizona LLC and the Wyoming holding LLC must still be reported to FinCEN under the Corporate Transparency Act, a database that is not open to public search.
A.R.S. § 29-3503(E) — exclusive remedy protection for all LLCs, following a 2020 amendment. A.R.S. § 29-3503(E), amended effective September 1, 2020, expressly makes the charging order the exclusive remedy against a member's interest for every Arizona LLC regardless of membership structure — a deliberate legislative fix that put Arizona in the same protective tier as Nevada, Wyoming, and Delaware. The amendment is only a few years old and hasn't been tested by the volume of appellate decisions Wyoming's or Delaware's statutes have, so treat it as strong statutory language that is still relatively young in practice.
Arizona LLCs file no annual report and owe no franchise tax — a genuine ongoing-cost advantage over nearly every other state. Pass-through income is taxed at Arizona's flat 2.5% personal income rate, and businesses selling taxable goods or services must separately register for and remit the Transaction Privilege Tax (TPT) through the Department of Revenue.
Note: The Arizona Corporation Commission fully retired its legacy eCorp portal on January 2, 2026, replacing it with the Arizona Business Center on January 12, 2026 — expect some third-party guides and even older internal citations to still reference eCorp for a while. Confirm the current $50 filing fee and search-portal URL directly at azcc.gov before relying on this page, and note that Arizona's separate newspaper-publication requirement for new LLCs (3 consecutive weeks, waived only for Maricopa/Pima County statutory agents) is a formation step this page does not cover in depth.
Yes. Under A.R.S. § 29-3201, a member-managed LLC's Articles of Organization must name every member, and a manager-managed LLC's must name every manager plus any member holding 20% or more. The Arizona Corporation Commission publishes that information through the Arizona Business Center.
Name a Wyoming holding LLC — not yourself — as the member or manager on the Articles of Organization, and do it at the first filing. Arizona has no LLC annual report, so there's no later periodic filing that refreshes or quietly corrects the disclosure; the original public record is permanent.
Yes, following a 2020 legislative fix. A.R.S. § 29-3503(E) makes the charging order the exclusive remedy for every Arizona LLC regardless of member count, putting it in the same tier as Nevada, Wyoming, and Delaware — though the amendment is newer and less tested in appellate courts than those states' longer-standing statutes.
Bottom line: Arizona publishes whoever is named member or manager on the Articles of Organization and never asks again — so a Wyoming holding LLC has to occupy that slot from the first filing for anonymity to hold.