Arkansas requires at least one member or manager's full name and title, in addition to the organizer on its public LLC filing. Arkansas requires naming a member or manager on the public Articles of Organization, so a Wyoming holding LLC has to occupy that role — and doing so also moves the Arkansas LLC out of § 4-38-503's single-member foreclosure exposure, since the statute's protection turns on member count. See our Wyoming holding company guide and full list of anonymous LLC states for more.
$50
Articles of Organization filing fee
1+ name required
Member or manager listed in the Organizers/Officers section
§ 4-38-503
Charging order exclusive only for multi-member LLCs
$150/yr
Annual LLC Franchise Tax Report
Arkansas is inexpensive to form ($50) but not a name-privacy state: Form LL-01, the Articles of Organization, requires the Organizers/Officers section to list at least one Member or Manager by name and title, on top of the separate Organizer — a detail one of LLC Attorney's own sibling data files gets backwards, and which this page corrects by treating Arkansas as a genuine disclosure state (see dataDiscrepancyNote). Arkansas also carries a real asset-protection quirk worth knowing regardless of privacy: Ark. Code § 4-38-503 limits exclusive-remedy charging-order protection to multi-member LLCs and, for a single-member LLC, lets a court foreclose the charging lien outright. Pairing an Arkansas operating LLC with a Wyoming holding LLC as its named member addresses both problems at once — it keeps an individual's name off the Arkansas filing, and it moves the entity out of § 4-38-503's single-member foreclosure exposure.
Arkansas's Articles of Organization (Form LL-01) require the Organizers/Officers section to list at least one Member or Manager by name and title, alongside the Organizer who signs the filing — a sole owner filing without a formation service typically ends up listed twice, once as Member (or Manager) and again as Organizer. That information is public and searchable through the Arkansas Secretary of State's Business Entity Search.
Because Arkansas's Form LL-01 requires naming at least one member or manager in the Organizers/Officers section, the only way to keep an individual off the public Articles of Organization is to name a Wyoming holding LLC in that slot instead of yourself — with a formation service, not the owner, serving as the separate Organizer. Arkansas is also a state where the Wyoming parent earns its place on the asset-protection side specifically: Ark. Code § 4-38-503 limits exclusive-remedy charging-order protection to LLCs with more than one member and, for single-member LLCs, lets a court foreclose the charging lien if distributions won't satisfy the judgment in a reasonable time — a real gap that a Wyoming holding LLC (or a genuine second member) helps close, since Arkansas's own single-member LLCs are otherwise exposed to a form of creditor reach most states' solo owners don't face.
Naming a Wyoming LLC as the Arkansas member keeps an individual's name off the Arkansas Secretary of State's record, 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.
Ark. Code § 4-38-503(a), (c) — exclusive remedy only for multi-member LLCs; foreclosure allowed for single-member LLCs. Ark. Code § 4-38-503(a) limits charging-order exclusivity to LLCs with more than one member, and subsection (c) lets a court foreclose the charging lien against a single-member LLC's interest if distributions won't satisfy the judgment within a reasonable time — one of the more direct statutory carve-outs against solo owners in the country, reaffirmed by Act 2023, No. 795. Arkansas's legislature revisited § 4-38-503 again in 2025 via SB319 (enacted as Act 461), and this page could not confirm with confidence, from the sources available during this research, exactly how that further amendment affects the single-member foreclosure question — treat the 'foreclosure permitted for single-member LLCs' conclusion above as the pre-2025 baseline and verify the current statutory text before relying on it (see volatilityNote).
Arkansas charges a flat $150 Annual LLC Franchise Tax Report, due May 1 each year to the Secretary of State, regardless of income or activity — a missed deadline adds a $25 penalty plus 10% annual interest. Pass-through income is taxed to members at Arkansas's top individual rate, cut to 3.7% effective the 2026 tax year after several recent reductions.
Note: Arkansas's legislature amended Ark. Code § 4-38-503 again in 2025 (SB319, enacted as Act 461) after the 2023 amendment (Act 795) that this page's charging-order conclusion is based on; the exact current effect of the 2025 amendment on single-member LLC foreclosure exposure could not be confirmed with confidence from the sources available during this research and deserves a fresh legal check before relying on it in a specific situation. Separately, Arkansas's top individual income tax rate has been cut several times in recent years (most recently to 3.7% for 2026) — confirm the current rate at dfa.arkansas.gov before citing it.
Note: apps/LLA/data/states/anonymous-llc/ar.ts states that Arkansas 'does not require member or manager names on the Articles of Organization' and frames the Organizers/Officers section as merely inviting optional information — the opposite of apps/LLA/data/states/llc-search/ar.ts's membersPubliclyListed: true and its note that at least one member or manager's name and title is a required field. A direct check of Arkansas's Form LL-01 field-by-field filing guidance confirms the Organizers/Officers section requires listing at least one Member or Manager by name in addition to the Organizer — a sole owner filing alone must list themselves twice. This page follows the llc-search account and the confirmed form requirement, treating Arkansas as a disclosure state; apps/LLA/data/states/anonymous-llc/ar.ts's 'optional' framing appears to be incorrect and should be reviewed.
Yes. Arkansas's Articles of Organization (Form LL-01) require the Organizers/Officers section to list at least one Member or Manager by name and title, in addition to the Organizer — a sole owner filing alone typically lists themselves in both roles, and that information is public through the Secretary of State's Business Entity Search.
Name a Wyoming holding LLC — not yourself — as the Member (or Manager) in the Organizers/Officers section, and use a formation service as the separate Organizer. Because Arkansas requires at least one name in that section, structuring around it before the first filing is the only reliable way to keep an individual off the public record.
Yes, and this is Arkansas's most consequential quirk for a solo owner. Ark. Code § 4-38-503(a) limits exclusive-remedy protection to LLCs with more than one member, and subsection (c) lets a court foreclose a single-member LLC's interest if distributions won't satisfy the judgment in a reasonable time. A Wyoming holding LLC as the member — or a genuine second member — moves the Arkansas LLC out of that single-member carve-out.
Bottom line: Arkansas requires a named member or manager on its Articles of Organization and exposes single-member LLCs to foreclosure that multi-member LLCs don't face — a Wyoming holding LLC named as the member solves both problems together.