Mississippi requires none on the initial Certificate of Formation, but at least one member's name and address (member-managed) or every manager's name and address (manager-managed) on the mandatory Annual Report due every April 15 on its public LLC filing. Mississippi's Certificate of Formation is private, but its mandatory Annual Report is not — so the only way to keep a name off the Mississippi record long-term is to name a Wyoming holding LLC as the member or manager listed on that report, not an individual. See our Wyoming holding company guide and full list of anonymous LLC states for more.
$50
Certificate of Formation filing fee
Private at filing
No member/manager name on the Certificate of Formation
Exposed at Annual Report
Member or manager name required every April 15
§ 79-29-705
Exclusive-remedy charging order protection
Mississippi looks private at first glance and mostly is — for about a year. The Certificate of Formation ($50) asks only for the LLC's name, registered agent, and principal office, with no field for a member or manager name. But Mississippi also requires an Annual Report every April 15, and that report is where ownership surfaces: at least one member's name and address for a member-managed LLC, or every manager's name and address for a manager-managed LLC, all searchable free at sos.ms.gov. The fix is the same one used in genuine disclosure states — name a Wyoming holding LLC as the member or manager before that first Annual Report goes in, so the Mississippi record traces to a Wyoming entity rather than a person. Mississippi pairs well with that structure anyway: no franchise tax, no Annual Report fee for domestic LLCs, and an exclusive-remedy charging order statute (Miss. Code § 79-29-705) whose text doesn't even address foreclosure.
Mississippi's Certificate of Formation itself is quiet on ownership: it asks for the LLC's name, registered agent, and principal office, but not a member or manager name. That changes the following spring. Every Mississippi LLC must file an Annual Report with the Secretary of State by April 15, and that report requires at least one member's name and address for a member-managed LLC, or every manager's name and address for a manager-managed LLC, plus any principal officers — all searchable free at sos.ms.gov. So Mississippi is not a true no-disclosure state like Wyoming; it is a state whose privacy on the day of formation quietly expires the first time the Annual Report comes due.
Because Mississippi's exposure point isn't the Certificate of Formation but the Annual Report, the fix has to be in place before that first report is ever filed. Form the Mississippi LLC as manager-managed (or member-managed, naming the LLC's sole member), and put a Wyoming holding LLC in that slot instead of a person. Every April, the Mississippi Annual Report then lists the Wyoming entity's name and address — not an individual's — and Wyoming's own filing discloses nothing about who stands behind it. This has to be designed at formation: once a person's name has appeared on even one Annual Report, it's a permanent, searchable part of the Mississippi record.
Naming a Wyoming holding LLC as the member or manager on Mississippi's Annual Report keeps a name off Mississippi's public record, but it doesn't touch federal law: beneficial owners of both the Mississippi LLC and the Wyoming holding LLC must still be reported to FinCEN under the Corporate Transparency Act, which is not a public database.
Miss. Code § 79-29-705 — exclusive remedy protection, including single-member LLCs; statute is silent on foreclosure. Miss. Code § 79-29-705 makes the charging order the exclusive remedy by which a judgment creditor may satisfy a judgment out of a member's financial interest, and separately bars a creditor from obtaining possession of, or exercising legal or equitable remedies against, the LLC's own property. The statute draws no distinction between single- and multi-member LLCs, and — unlike Colorado's or Illinois's — its text does not mention foreclosure of the interest at all. No Mississippi appellate decision has directly tested this provision against a single-member LLC, so treat it as strong, favorable statutory language rather than court-tested doctrine.
Mississippi's Annual Report carries no fee for a domestic LLC (a foreign LLC registered to do business there pays $250) and is due every April 15 — but it is also the document that requires a member or manager name, so confirm every year that it still names your Wyoming holding LLC and not an individual. Mississippi's flat personal income tax, currently phasing down under a multi-year tax-cut law to roughly the 4.0%–4.7% range for 2026, applies to members on their share of pass-through income.
Note: Confirm the current $50 Certificate of Formation fee, the $0/$250 domestic/foreign Annual Report split, and the exact Annual Report fields directly at sos.ms.gov before relying on them — Mississippi's income tax rate is also mid-phase-down and should be reconfirmed for the current tax year. This page corrects an earlier internal discrepancy over whether Mississippi discloses a member or manager name at all (see dataDiscrepancyNote); the resolution above should still be verified against Mississippi's live Annual Report form in a high-stakes situation.
Note: apps/LLA/data/states/llc-search/ms.ts records membersPubliclyListed: true, while apps/LLA/data/states/anonymous-llc/ms.ts states the Certificate of Formation 'does not require any member or manager names to be listed' — an apparent conflict. A web cross-check against Mississippi's Certificate of Formation instructions and its Annual Report requirement resolved this rather than picking a side: both files are correct about a different document. The initial Certificate of Formation does not ask for a member or manager name (matching anonymous-llc/ms.ts), but the mandatory Annual Report — due April 15 the year after formation and every year after — does require at least one member's name/address (member-managed) or every manager's name/address (manager-managed), which is what llc-search/ms.ts's membersPubliclyListed: true is actually describing. This page treats Mississippi as private at formation but exposed within the first annual reporting cycle, and flags both LLA files for a note pointing to this distinction.
Not on the initial Certificate of Formation, which asks only for the LLC's name, registered agent, and principal office. But the mandatory Annual Report, due every April 15, requires at least one member's name and address (member-managed) or every manager's name and address (manager-managed), searchable free at sos.ms.gov — so the privacy the Certificate offers doesn't last past the first Annual Report unless it's planned for.
Name a Wyoming holding LLC — not yourself — as the member or manager before the LLC's first Annual Report is ever filed. Mississippi's Annual Report then shows the Wyoming entity's name and address, and Wyoming's own filing discloses no owners, so an individual's name never enters the Mississippi record.
Yes. Miss. Code § 79-29-705 makes the charging order the exclusive remedy against a member's interest, applies equally to single-member LLCs, and its text doesn't mention foreclosure at all — stronger, on paper, than states like Colorado or Illinois whose statutes expressly allow it. No Mississippi court has tested the provision directly, so it's strong statutory language rather than court-proven doctrine.
Bottom line: Mississippi's Certificate of Formation is private, but its mandatory Annual Report requires a member or manager name every year — so a Wyoming holding LLC has to occupy that slot from day one, not be added later.