Connecticut requires at least one member or manager's full name, business address, and residence address (only the first three appear on the public registry) on its public LLC filing. Connecticut discloses a member or manager on both the Certificate of Organization and every annual report, so a Wyoming holding LLC has to occupy that role and stay named there on every renewal, not just at formation. See our Wyoming holding company guide and full list of anonymous LLC states for more.
$120
Certificate of Organization filing fee
1+ name required
Member or manager listed at formation and each year
§ 34-259b
Exclusive-remedy charging order, single-member included
$80/yr
Annual Report (repeats member/manager disclosure)
Connecticut does not hide ownership on its own filing. The Certificate of Organization ($120), under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 34-247, requires the name, business address, and residence address of at least one member or manager — a disclosure that repeats every year on the $80 Annual Report. To keep an individual's name off both filings, a Wyoming holding LLC is named as that member or manager from the start and kept named there on every renewal. Connecticut's real strength is on the creditor side: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 34-259b makes the charging order the exclusive remedy and expressly bars foreclosure whether the LLC has one member or several, a protection enacted in 2017 specifically to cover single-member LLCs and comparable to Delaware's own statute.
Connecticut's Certificate of Organization, under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 34-247, requires the name, business address, and residence address of at least one member or manager — earlier and more directly than most states, which typically wait for a later annual filing to ask for that information. An LLC can have unlimited members or managers, but only the first three appear on the public business registry; a good-cause exception lets a business address substitute for a residence address when disclosure would pose a personal-security risk, though the name itself is still disclosed.
Because Conn. Gen. Stat. § 34-247 requires naming at least one member or manager — with an address — on the Certificate of Organization, and the $80 Annual Report repeats that disclosure every year, the only way to keep an individual off Connecticut's public record is to name a Wyoming holding LLC as that member or manager from the outset and keep it named there on every renewal. Connecticut is worth the extra structuring specifically because its charging-order statute is genuinely strong: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 34-259b makes the charging order the exclusive remedy and bars foreclosure whether the LLC has one member or more than one, a protection comparable to Delaware's — so a Wyoming parent above a Connecticut LLC adds name privacy to an operating entity that already has real creditor protection of its own.
Naming a Wyoming LLC as the Connecticut member or manager keeps an individual's name off Connecticut's public record, but it doesn't change federal law: beneficial owners of both entities must still be reported to FinCEN under the Corporate Transparency Act, a database that is not open to public search.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 34-259b — exclusive remedy protection, explicitly covering single-member LLCs. Conn. Gen. Stat. § 34-259b makes the charging order the exclusive remedy against a member's interest and states that attachment, garnishment, and foreclosure 'are not available to the judgment creditor, whether the limited liability company has one member or more than one member' — language enacted via Public Act 16-97, effective July 1, 2017, specifically to remove any ambiguity for single-member LLCs. This puts Connecticut in the same flagship protective tier as Delaware.
Connecticut requires an $80 Annual Report each year, due between January 1 and March 31, filed online at business.ct.gov — and that report repeats the member/manager disclosure from formation, so confirm it still names the Wyoming holding LLC rather than an individual. There is no Connecticut franchise tax on LLCs; pass-through income is taxed to members at Connecticut's graduated 2% to 6.99% rates, with an optional 6.99% Pass-Through Entity Tax election available.
Note: Confirm the current $120 Certificate of Organization fee and $80 Annual Report fee directly at business.ct.gov — and note that Connecticut's Secretary of the State does not publish an official definition of 'distinguishable' for name-conflict purposes, so a borderline name search result is genuinely harder to self-assess here than in states with published examiner criteria.
Yes. Conn. Gen. Stat. § 34-247 requires the name, business address, and residence address of at least one member or manager on the Certificate of Organization, and that information is public — only the first three listed principals appear on the searchable registry, but the requirement itself cannot be avoided.
Name a Wyoming holding LLC — not yourself — as the member or manager on the Certificate of Organization, and keep it named there on every $80 Annual Report, which repeats the same disclosure every year. Connecticut's own filing never lets that field go blank.
Yes, among the strongest in the country. Conn. Gen. Stat. § 34-259b makes the charging order the exclusive remedy and bars foreclosure, garnishment, and attachment whether the LLC has one member or more than one — language added specifically in 2017 to remove any doubt for single-member LLCs, comparable to Delaware's protection.
Bottom line: Connecticut discloses a named member or manager at formation and again every year — a Wyoming holding LLC has to hold that spot continuously for privacy to work, while Connecticut's own charging-order statute already does the asset-protection heavy lifting.