New Jersey does not require member or manager names in its own public LLC filing. New Jersey's own Certificate of Formation is already free of member and manager names; a Wyoming parent mainly protects against the annual report's 'Officers' section ever surfacing an individual's name through a certified-copy pull. See our Wyoming holding company guide and full list of anonymous LLC states for more.
$125
Certificate of Formation filing fee
No names
Member/manager names not on the certificate
Fee-gated
Annual report member data (not in free search)
§ 42:2C-43
Sole-remedy charging order, no SMLLC gap
New Jersey is more privacy-friendly on its own filing than its high-tax reputation suggests. The Certificate of Formation, governed by N.J.S.A. 42:2C-18, requires only the LLC's name and registered agent — no member or manager name is collected on the form itself. The wrinkle is the annual report, which captures LLC members in an 'Officers' section that's part of the official record even though New Jersey's free basic search doesn't display it. Because the formation filing is already clean, a Wyoming holding LLC named as the New Jersey entity's member is mainly there to keep that annual-report field from ever surfacing an individual's name through a certified-copy request — layered on top of New Jersey's own genuinely strong, sole-remedy charging-order statute.
New Jersey's Certificate of Formation, governed by N.J.S.A. 42:2C-18, requires only the LLC's name and the name and address of its registered agent — no member or manager name is a statutory requirement, and none appears on the filed certificate itself. The nuance most readers miss is the annual report: New Jersey's annual report requires listing LLC members in an 'Officers' section, which becomes part of the official record, but the state's free basic entity search does not display that information — you'd need to pull an actual certified copy to see it. So New Jersey member information exists on file but isn't casually searchable the way it is in a true disclosure state.
Because New Jersey's Certificate of Formation doesn't ask for a member or manager name, a Wyoming holding LLC above a New Jersey entity isn't closing a formation-stage gap — New Jersey already keeps that field off the public certificate. What it closes is the annual report gap: New Jersey's annual report captures LLC members in its 'Officers' section, and while that isn't shown in the free basic search, it's part of the official record and reachable through a certified copy. Naming a Wyoming holding LLC as the New Jersey entity's member means that record, if ever pulled, points to Wyoming rather than an individual. New Jersey's charging-order statute (N.J.S. 42:2C-43) is also genuinely strong on its own, which makes the Wyoming layer here more about privacy discipline than about fixing weak asset protection.
New Jersey's formation filing staying clean of member names doesn't change federal law: beneficial owners of the New Jersey 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.
N.J.S. 42:2C-43 — sole-remedy charging order protection, with full parity for single-member LLCs. N.J.S. 42:2C-43 makes a charging order the 'sole remedy' of a judgment creditor pursuing a member's transferable interest, and the statute draws no distinction between single- and multi-member LLCs — a New Jersey single-member LLC gets the same statutory footing as a multi-member one. No reported New Jersey appellate decision has directly tested this provision against a single-member LLC the way Florida's Olmstead case did, so treat it as strong statutory language rather than court-confirmed doctrine.
New Jersey has no franchise tax on LLCs, but requires a $75 annual report due the last day of the LLC's anniversary month. Pass-through income is taxed to members at New Jersey's graduated personal rates, topping out at 10.75% — one of the highest top marginal rates in the country — and a single-member/disregarded LLC is generally not eligible for the state's BAIT/PTE SALT-cap workaround election, which is built around entities taxed as a partnership or S corporation.
Note: Some secondary sources and formation-portal walkthroughs describe njportal.com's online filing wizard as collecting member/manager names during the Certificate of Formation process; the underlying statute (N.J.S.A. 42:2C-18) does not require this on the certificate itself, and this page follows the statutory text together with apps/LLA/data/states/llc-search/nj.ts and anonymous-llc/nj.ts. Confirm current portal behavior directly at njportal.com before relying on this distinction in a high-stakes situation. Also confirm current BAIT/PTE eligibility rules, since pass-through entity tax elections are an actively evolving area of New Jersey law.
No. Under N.J.S.A. 42:2C-18, the Certificate of Formation requires only the LLC's name and its registered agent's name and address. New Jersey's annual report does capture members in an 'Officers' section, but that information isn't shown in the state's free basic entity search — only a certified copy reveals it.
New Jersey's own filing is already free of member names. Naming a Wyoming holding LLC as the member closes the remaining gap: New Jersey's annual report 'Officers' section, which is part of the official record even though it isn't surfaced by the free search.
Yes. N.J.S. 42:2C-43 makes a charging order the judgment creditor's sole remedy, with no carve-out for single-member LLCs — a genuinely strong statute, though not yet tested by a New Jersey appellate court the way Florida's Olmstead case tested Florida's.
Bottom line: New Jersey's Certificate of Formation doesn't require a member or manager name — a Wyoming parent here mainly guards against the annual report's fee-gated 'Officers' section ever exposing an individual.