Indiana does not require member or manager names in its own public LLC filing. Indiana's own Articles of Organization already keep every name off the public record — there's no organizer or governing-person field the way Colorado or Georgia have. A Wyoming parent above an Indiana LLC is mainly an asset-protection upgrade, given Indiana's unresolved single-member charging-order question. See our Wyoming holding company guide and full list of anonymous LLC states for more.
$95
Articles of Organization filing fee (online)
No names required
Member, manager, and organizer disclosure all optional
$32
Biennial Business Entity Report (every 2 years)
Unsettled
Charging-order exclusivity for single-member LLCs
Indiana is one of the more privacy-friendly states in this series on its own filing, and it's worth being direct about that: the Articles of Organization ($95) require only the LLC's name, registered office, and registered agent — no organizer, member, or manager name at all — and the biennial Business Entity Report that follows makes governing-person disclosure optional rather than mandatory. What Indiana doesn't offer is settled asset protection: IC 23-18-6-7 contains no exclusive-remedy language, and the one case addressing the charging order, Brant v. Krilich, never reached a single-member fact pattern. A Wyoming holding LLC above an Indiana operating LLC is mainly used to resolve that open question, not to fix a privacy gap Indiana doesn't have.
Indiana's Articles of Organization, filed through INBiz, require only the LLC's name, the street address of its registered office, and its registered agent's name — the statute doesn't ask for a business purpose, an organizer's name, or any member or manager information at all. Indiana is more privacy-friendly than most states on its own filing: the biennial Business Entity Report that follows makes governing-person disclosure optional as well, not mandatory, so you can leave that section blank and stay in good standing.
Indiana is an unusual case in this series: its own Articles of Organization ask for nothing but the LLC name, registered office, and registered agent, so there's no member/manager field for a Wyoming holding LLC to occupy the way there is in a disclosure state, and there's no organizer-name requirement either, unlike Colorado or Georgia. Where a Wyoming parent earns its keep above an Indiana LLC is twofold: it keeps the biennial Business Entity Report's optional governing-person fields from ever needing a personal name (leave them blank, or list the Wyoming entity if you complete them), and it adds real asset-protection value, since Indiana's own charging-order exclusivity for single-member LLCs is a genuinely unresolved legal question — IC 23-18-6-7 contains no "exclusive remedy" language, and the one case on point, Brant v. Krilich, addressed only a multi-member LLC.
Indiana not requiring member or manager names doesn't change federal law: beneficial owners of the Indiana LLC — and of any Wyoming holding LLC above it — must still be reported to FinCEN under the Corporate Transparency Act, which is not open to public search.
IC 23-18-6-7; Brant v. Krilich, 835 N.E.2d 582 (Ind. Ct. App. 2005) — charging order available, but exclusivity for single-member LLCs is a genuinely unresolved legal question. IC 23-18-6-7 limits a judgment creditor to a charging order with assignee-style rights, but the statute contains no "exclusive remedy" language. Brant v. Krilich held there is no reverse veil-piercing or forced foreclosure against LLC members, but that case involved a multi-member LLC — it doesn't resolve whether a single-member Indiana LLC gets the same result, and a 2013 bill (HB 1394) that would have added explicit exclusivity language was stripped out before passage. This is a real reason, beyond privacy, that owners layer a multi-member Wyoming parent above an Indiana operating LLC rather than relying on Indiana's own unsettled protection.
Indiana requires no annual report — only a $32 Business Entity Report once every two years, due by the last day of the LLC's anniversary month in its second year. There is no Indiana franchise tax; pass-through income is taxed to members at Indiana's flat 2.95% rate (declining to 2.9% in 2027), plus a county income tax of 0.5% to 3.38%.
Note: Confirm the $95 formation fee and $32 biennial Business Entity Report fee directly at inbiz.in.gov. Indiana's charging-order exclusivity question for single-member LLCs remains genuinely unresolved as of 2026 — treat it as an open question rather than settled protection in either direction, the same caution apps/LLA/data/states/single-member-llc/in.ts gives.
No. Indiana's Articles of Organization require only the LLC's name, registered office address, and registered agent — no organizer, member, or manager name is required, and the biennial Business Entity Report that follows makes governing-person disclosure optional too.
Indiana's own filing already keeps every name off the public record, so no formation-service workaround is needed for the Articles themselves. A Wyoming holding LLC as the member on your (non-public) operating agreement is used mainly for its stronger, settled charging-order protection rather than for name privacy Indiana already provides.
It's genuinely unclear. IC 23-18-6-7 doesn't contain exclusive-remedy language, and the leading case, Brant v. Krilich (2005), addressed only a multi-member LLC. No Indiana court or statute has directly resolved whether a single-member LLC's charging order is truly exclusive, which is why a multi-member Wyoming parent is often used above an Indiana subsidiary.
Bottom line: Indiana already keeps every name off its public filing, so a Wyoming parent here is primarily an asset-protection move — addressing a genuinely unresolved charging-order question that Indiana's own statute and case law don't settle.