Louisiana requires initial member or manager names and municipal addresses on the Initial Report, republished annually on the Annual Report on its public LLC filing. Louisiana requires a named member or manager on both the Initial Report and every Annual Report — that field has to be a Wyoming holding LLC, renewed every anniversary month, for an individual's name to stay off Louisiana's public record. See our Wyoming holding company guide and full list of anonymous LLC states for more.
$100
Articles of Organization filing fee
Names public
Member/manager names on Initial + Annual Report
$30/yr
Annual Report fee (restates names)
AOK Property
Charging order held exclusive for single-member LLCs
Louisiana is one of the more transparent states in this series. Its Initial Report, filed with the $100 Articles of Organization, requires the names and municipal addresses of the first members or managers under La. R.S. 12:1305, and the $30 Annual Report republishes that information every anniversary month — all searchable at coraweb.sos.la.gov. A Wyoming holding LLC named as the member, kept current on every Annual Report, is the only way to keep an individual's name off that record. What Louisiana does have going for it is a genuinely favorable, on-point single-member charging-order case: AOK Property Investments, LLC v. Boudreaux (2020) held the charging order exclusive even for a sole member, so the case for a Wyoming parent here is almost entirely about privacy rather than fixing weak asset protection.
Louisiana's LLC Act requires the names and municipal addresses of the first members or managers on the Initial Report filed alongside the Articles of Organization (La. R.S. 12:1305), and the $30 Annual Report, due each anniversary month, restates that information — all searchable through the Commercial Division database at coraweb.sos.la.gov. There is no version of a Louisiana filing that omits this disclosure; Louisiana is on the more transparent end of the states in this series.
Because Louisiana requires a named member or manager on both the Initial Report and every subsequent Annual Report, the way to keep an individual's name off Louisiana's public record is to name a Wyoming holding LLC in that slot — and keep it there every anniversary month, since the disclosure renews annually rather than being a one-time formation fact. Louisiana's own charging-order protection for single-member LLCs is, unusually, one of the better-documented cases nationally in the LLC's favor: in AOK Property Investments, LLC v. Boudreaux, No. 20-237 (La. App. 5 Cir. Dec. 9, 2020), the Louisiana Court of Appeals reversed a trial court that had allowed a creditor to seize a sole member's entire membership interest, holding the charging-order provision (La. R.S. 12:1331) exclusive even for a single-member LLC. Even so, a Wyoming parent above the Louisiana interest is standard here — not for asset protection, which Louisiana already handles reasonably well, but because Louisiana's own filing will never stop publishing a member or manager's name on its own.
Naming a Wyoming LLC as the Louisiana entity's member keeps an individual's name off Louisiana's public filings, 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.
La. R.S. 12:1331; AOK Property Investments, LLC v. Boudreaux, No. 20-237 (La. App. 5 Cir. Dec. 9, 2020) — charging order available; not expressly labeled 'exclusive remedy' by statute, but AOK Property Investments held it exclusive even for a single-member LLC. Louisiana's LLC Act (La. R.S. 12:1331) limits a member's judgment creditor to a charging order — an assignee's rights only, no vote or management — but doesn't use express 'exclusive remedy' statutory language the way Wyoming does. AOK Property Investments, LLC v. Boudreaux (2020) filled that gap directly: the Louisiana Court of Appeals reversed a trial court that had let a creditor seize a single-member LLC's entire interest, holding the charging order is the exclusive remedy even for a sole member — a genuinely favorable, on-point appellate result that most states can't cite.
Louisiana requires a $30 Annual Report (filed online through geauxBIZ) due each anniversary month, which restates member or manager names on the public record — there is no way to avoid this recurring disclosure. There is no Louisiana franchise tax on LLCs. Pass-through income is taxed to members at Louisiana's flat 3% personal income rate, effective January 1, 2025 under HB 10.
Note: Louisiana recodified portions of its LLC law and separately adopted its flat 3% income tax in 2024–2025 — confirm no further legislative change to either figure before citing them, though AOK Property Investments' holding remains good law as of 2026. Confirm the $100 formation fee and $30 Annual Report fee directly at geauxbiz.com.
Yes. The Initial Report filed with the Articles of Organization requires the names and municipal addresses of the first members or managers under La. R.S. 12:1305, and the $30 Annual Report restates them every anniversary month — both are public through the Commercial Division database.
Name a Wyoming holding LLC — not yourself — as the member on the Initial Report, and keep it as the listed member on every subsequent Annual Report, since Louisiana republishes the name annually rather than disclosing it once at formation.
Yes, unusually so. Although La. R.S. 12:1331 doesn't use express 'exclusive remedy' language, the Louisiana Court of Appeals in AOK Property Investments, LLC v. Boudreaux (2020) reversed a trial court that had allowed a creditor to seize a sole member's entire interest, holding the charging order exclusive even for a single-member LLC — a rare, directly favorable appellate result.
Bottom line: Louisiana publishes member or manager names on both the Initial Report and every Annual Report — a Wyoming holding LLC named as the member, renewed every year, is what keeps a Louisiana structure private.