Hawaii requires initial managers (manager-managed) or initial members (member-managed) — name and address on its public LLC filing. Hawaii's Form LLC-1 requires a named initial manager or member at formation, so a Wyoming holding LLC has to occupy that slot from the first filing for the privacy to hold — the exposure happens once, at filing, rather than through a recurring annual disclosure the way Nevada's or Colorado's filings work. See our Wyoming holding company guide and full list of anonymous LLC states for more.
$50
Articles of Organization filing fee (Form LLC-1)
Names public
Initial managers or members listed on the filing
§ 428-504
Exclusive-remedy charging order, untested for single-member LLCs
~11%
Top Hawaii income tax rate on pass-through profit
Hawaii is not a name-privacy state on its own filing, and it's worth being direct about that: Form LLC-1, the Articles of Organization, requires the name and address of every initial manager or initial member at the moment you file, and that information becomes part of the public DCCA record. To keep an individual owner's name off it, a Wyoming holding LLC is named as the initial manager or member instead, so the Hawaii filing traces to the Wyoming entity rather than to a person. Hawaii's charging-order statute reads favorably for single-member LLCs on its face, but the question has never been tested in a Hawaii court, so pairing a Hawaii operating LLC with a multi-member Wyoming parent is the more conservative structure for asset protection.
Hawaii's Articles of Organization (Form LLC-1) require the name and address of every initial manager, if the LLC is manager-managed, or every initial member, if it is member-managed — sections 6c and 6d of the form, filed with DCCA's Business Registration Division. That information becomes part of the public record and can be obtained by requesting a copy of the filed Articles from DCCA. Hawaii is a genuine disclosure state on its own filing, not a no-disclosure one.
Because Form LLC-1 requires a named initial manager or initial member, the way to keep an individual's name off a Hawaii LLC's public Articles of Organization is to name a Wyoming holding LLC in that slot instead. DCCA's record then shows the Wyoming entity, not a person, and Wyoming's own filing discloses nothing further. This has to be decided at formation, not patched later — Form LLC-1 asks for the initial manager or member by name at the moment you file, so a personal name entered there becomes a permanent part of that filing. Hawaii's own charging-order statute (Haw. Rev. Stat. § 428-504) reads favorably on paper, but it has never been tested in a Hawaii court for a single-member LLC specifically — pairing a Hawaii operating LLC with a multi-member Wyoming parent avoids relying on an untested single-member question.
Naming a Wyoming LLC as the Hawaii LLC's initial manager or member keeps a name off DCCA's public record, but the underlying beneficial owners — of both entities — must still be reported to FinCEN under the Corporate Transparency Act, a non-public federal database.
Haw. Rev. Stat. § 428-504 (untested for single-member LLCs) — exclusive remedy under the statute's plain language, but foreclosure of the distributional interest is expressly permitted, and no case has tested it for single-member LLCs. Haw. Rev. Stat. § 428-504(e) makes the charging order the exclusive remedy against a member's interest, applying uniformly regardless of member count. But the same section, § 428-504(b), lets a court foreclose the charging-order lien on the distributional interest — a real gap compared to Wyoming's no-foreclosure rule — and no Hawaii appellate decision has addressed whether the exclusivity language actually holds up for a single-member LLC the way it has been tested in Florida (Olmstead) or California (Curci Investments). Treat Hawaii's protection as presumptively favorable, not court-confirmed.
Hawaii charges a $15 Annual Report, due by the last day of the LLC's anniversary quarter (not a fixed statewide date), and no franchise tax. Pass-through income is taxed to Hawaii-resident members at the state's steeply graduated rate, up to roughly 11% — one of the highest top rates in the country, and a more consequential ongoing cost than any filing fee.
Note: Confirm the $50 formation fee and $15 Annual Report fee directly at cca.hawaii.gov/breg — BREG was mid-migration to a new consolidated online portal as of July 2026, with expedited filing service temporarily suspended, so expect possible processing delays through the rest of 2026. Also confirm the member/manager disclosure conclusion above against the live Form LLC-1 before relying on it in a high-stakes situation, given the discrepancy this page corrects (see dataDiscrepancyNote).
Note: apps/LLA/data/states/llc-search/hi.ts (membersPubliclyListed: false) disagrees with both apps/LLA/data/states/anonymous-llc/hi.ts and Hawaii's own official Form LLC-1, confirmed directly at files.hawaii.gov/dcca/breg/registration/forms/llc-1.pdf: sections 6c and 6d require the name and address of every initial manager (manager-managed) or initial member (member-managed), and that information is public. This page follows the form-verified account and treats Hawaii as a disclosure state; the llc-search boolean for Hawaii should be reviewed and corrected, the same way CO and IL needed correcting during the pilot batch of this series.
Yes. Form LLC-1, the Articles of Organization, requires the name and address of every initial manager (if manager-managed) or every initial member (if member-managed), and that information is public through Hawaii's DCCA. An earlier internal source for this page had this backwards — see the note on this page's data sourcing.
Name a Wyoming holding LLC — not yourself — as the initial manager or member on Form LLC-1. Hawaii's public record then shows the Wyoming entity, and Wyoming's own filing discloses no owners, so an individual's name stays off both states' records. This has to be set up at formation, since Form LLC-1 asks for the name at the moment you file.
It reads favorably but is untested. Haw. Rev. Stat. § 428-504(e) makes the charging order the exclusive remedy regardless of member count, but no Hawaii court has confirmed this holds for a single-member LLC specifically, and § 428-504(b) separately permits foreclosure of the distributional interest. A multi-member Wyoming parent avoids relying on that open question.
Bottom line: Hawaii's Form LLC-1 publishes an initial manager or member's name at formation, so anonymity here comes entirely from naming a Wyoming holding LLC in that role from day one — not from anything Hawaii's own filing provides.