Kansas requires member names/addresses for anyone owning 5% or more of capital (or manager names if manager-managed) — disclosed on the biennial Information Report, not on the Articles of Organization itself on its public LLC filing. Kansas's Articles of Organization are clean, but its biennial Information Report requires 5%+ member (or manager) names and is public — so a Wyoming holding LLC has to be the entity named on that report, not just at formation, for privacy to hold up over time. See our Wyoming holding company guide and full list of anonymous LLC states for more.
$85
Articles of Organization filing fee (online)
5%+ owners named
Biennial Information Report discloses members/managers
$50/2 yrs
Information Report fee (online)
§17-76,113
Exclusive-remedy charging order, undercut by case law
Kansas looks like a clean privacy state at first glance — its Articles of Organization (K.S.A. 17-7673, $85 online) ask only for the company name, registered office, and resident agent, with no member or manager name required. The catch surfaces two years later: Kansas's biennial Information Report, due every April 15, requires the name and address of any member owning 5% or more of the LLC (or the managers, if manager-managed), and that report is public. A Wyoming holding LLC named as the Kansas entity's member — and kept as the listed member on every subsequent report — is what actually delivers durable privacy here. Kansas's charging-order statute (K.S.A. 17-76,113) also reads stronger on paper than it has held up in practice, since Meyer v. Christie let a federal court reach past it for a single-member LLC.
Kansas's Articles of Organization, filed under K.S.A. 17-7673, ask only for the company name, registered office, and resident agent — no member or manager names at formation. But Kansas's biennial Information Report, filed every two years by April 15, requires listing the name and address of each member owning 5% or more of the LLC's capital, or the managers if manager-managed, and that report is public record at sos.ks.gov. The clean formation filing is misleading on its own: real anonymity in Kansas depends on what's listed two years later, not on the Articles.
Kansas's clean Articles of Organization can create a false sense of privacy, because the biennial Information Report due every two years requires the name and address of any member owning 5% or more of the LLC (or the managers, if manager-managed), and that report is public. Naming a Wyoming holding LLC as the Kansas entity's member — and keeping it the named member on every subsequent Information Report — is what actually delivers durable anonymity here, not the formation filing alone. Kansas's charging-order statute (K.S.A. 17-76,113) reads as some of the strongest exclusive-remedy language in the country, applying whether the LLC has one member or more, but Meyer v. Christie, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 118590 (D. Kan. 2011), shows a federal court was willing to look past that text and grant a creditor broader control rights against a single-member LLC — a further reason owners layer a Wyoming parent above a Kansas operating LLC.
Whatever Kansas's public filings show at any point in the reporting cycle, beneficial owners of the Kansas LLC — and of a Wyoming holding LLC above it — must still be reported to FinCEN under the Corporate Transparency Act, a non-public federal database.
K.S.A. 17-76,113 — exclusive-remedy statute applies to single-member LLCs by its text, but Meyer v. Christie (D. Kan. 2011) undercut that text in practice. K.S.A. 17-76,113 states a charging order is the exclusive remedy 'whether the limited liability company has one member or more than one member' — some of the strongest statutory language in the country. But in Meyer v. Christie, No. 07-2230-CM, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 118590 (D. Kan. Oct. 13, 2011), a federal court interpreting Kansas law looked past that statute to a separate assignment-of-interests provision and held a creditor could assert management and control rights against a single-member LLC, not just assignee-style economic rights. Treat the statute as necessary but not sufficient protection.
Kansas charges no franchise tax on LLCs. The recurring state filing is a $50 online ($55 by mail) biennial Information Report due April 15 every other year, keyed to whether the LLC formed in an even or odd year. Kansas reduced its Articles of Organization filing fee from $160 to $85 online ($90 by mail) effective February 27, 2026. Pass-through income is taxed to members at Kansas's graduated 5.20%/5.58% personal income rates.
Note: Kansas cut its Articles of Organization fee from $160 to $85 online ($90 by mail) effective February 27, 2026 — confirm the current fee at sos.ks.gov before relying on it, since a recent fee change is exactly the kind of fact that goes stale fastest. Separately, internal LLA source files disagree on the Information Report fee: apps/LLA/data/states/single-member-llc/ks.ts and a fresh web search corroborate $50 online / $55 mail, while apps/LLA/data/states/anonymous-llc/ks.ts cites $90/$110 — this page uses the corroborated $50/$55 figure, but confirm directly at sos.ks.gov before citing either.
Note: apps/LLA/data/states/anonymous-llc/ks.ts frames Kansas as keeping 'member and manager names off the public filing entirely,' citing only the Articles of Organization (K.S.A. 17-7673) and treating the organizer as the sole disclosure gap — it does not mention that the biennial Information Report requires 5%+ member (or manager) names and is public. apps/LLA/data/states/llc-search/ks.ts (membersPubliclyListed: true) and a web search of Kansas's own Information Report instructions (sos.ks.gov/forms/business_services/ILC.pdf) both confirm the Information Report does require this disclosure. This page follows llc-search's true determination: Kansas's formation filing is clean, but its recurring Information Report is not, so a Kansas LLC is not durably anonymous without a Wyoming holding LLC named as the member on that report. apps/LLA/data/states/anonymous-llc/ks.ts should be reviewed, since it appears to omit the Information Report's disclosure requirement entirely.
Not at formation. The Articles of Organization (K.S.A. 17-7673) ask only for the company name, registered office, and resident agent. But the biennial Information Report, due every two years by April 15, requires the name and address of any member owning 5% or more of the LLC (or the managers if manager-managed), and that report is public at sos.ks.gov.
Name a Wyoming holding LLC as the Kansas entity's member, and keep it as the listed member on every subsequent Information Report — not just at formation. Because the disclosure happens on a recurring report rather than the Articles, the privacy structure has to be maintained every reporting cycle, not set up once.
The statute looks very strong — K.S.A. 17-76,113 applies exclusive-remedy protection whether an LLC has one member or more. But Meyer v. Christie (D. Kan. 2011), a federal court interpreting Kansas law, allowed a creditor broader control and management rights against a single-member LLC by reaching a separate assignment provision, so the practical protection is less certain than the text alone suggests.
Bottom line: Kansas's formation filing is clean, but its recurring Information Report discloses members or managers publicly — a Wyoming holding LLC named as the member, kept current on every report, is what makes Kansas privacy durable.