North Carolina requires none required beyond the executing signer on the Articles of Organization, but a company official's name, title, and business address is mandatory on the Annual Report due every April 15 on its public LLC filing. North Carolina's Articles of Organization stay relatively clean, but the Annual Report re-discloses a company official every April 15 — so the Wyoming holding LLC has to occupy that role continuously, not just at formation, for the structure to hold up year over year. See our Wyoming holding company guide and full list of anonymous LLC states for more.
$125
Articles of Organization filing fee
April 15
Annual Report names a company official publicly
§ 57D-5-03
Exclusive-remedy charging order (untested for SMLLCs)
$202/yr
Annual Report fee ($200 penalty if late)
North Carolina is often mistaken for a privacy state because its Articles of Organization don't ask for a member or manager roster. The reality is narrower: under G.S. 57D-2-24, the Annual Report due every April 15 requires a company official's name, title, and business address, and that detail is published at sosnc.gov. So the privacy from the $125 formation filing lasts roughly until the first report comes due — after that, real anonymity depends on naming a Wyoming holding LLC as the company official instead of yourself. North Carolina's charging-order statute reads as protective on its face, though it hasn't been tested for single-member LLCs the way some other states' have, which is one more reason owners often pair a North Carolina operating entity with a Wyoming holding parent above it.
North Carolina's Articles of Organization don't ask you to declare member-managed or manager-managed status and don't require a roster of member or manager names — the only name on that initial filing belongs to whoever executes it, identified under G.S. 57D-2-21 as signing in the capacity of member, organizer, or both. The disclosure that actually matters arrives the following spring: North Carolina's Annual Report, due every April 15 under G.S. 57D-2-24, requires the name, title, and business address of at least one company official, and that report is public at sosnc.gov. So North Carolina gives roughly a one-year head start on privacy, not lasting anonymity, unless the company official named each year is an entity rather than an individual.
Because North Carolina's Articles of Organization don't require a member or manager roster, forming the LLC itself doesn't expose an owner beyond whoever signs as the executing member or organizer. The exposure is annual and recurring instead: the Annual Report due every April 15 requires a company official's name, title, and business address under G.S. 57D-2-24, and that becomes part of the public sosnc.gov record. Naming a Wyoming holding LLC as that company official — rather than yourself — is what keeps an individual's name from reappearing on the state's record every year. North Carolina's charging-order statute (N.C. Gen. Stat. § 57D-5-03(d)) is also a genuine exclusive remedy on its face, though untested in North Carolina courts for single-member LLCs specifically — one more reason some owners layer a Wyoming parent above a North Carolina operating subsidiary rather than relying on an untested single-member statute alone.
Keeping an individual's name off North Carolina's Annual Report doesn't change federal law: beneficial owners of the North Carolina 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.C. Gen. Stat. § 57D-5-03(d) — exclusive remedy on its face, though untested in North Carolina courts for single-member LLCs specifically. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 57D-5-03(d) states that entry of a charging order is the exclusive remedy by which a judgment creditor may satisfy a judgment from a member's ownership interest, with no distinction drawn between single- and multi-member LLCs on its face. No North Carolina appellate court has yet tested whether it would carve out single-member LLCs the way Florida's Olmstead decision did, so treat this as a strong statutory starting point rather than a court-confirmed guarantee.
North Carolina has no franchise tax on pass-through LLCs. The recurring state obligation is a $202 Annual Report due April 15 each year, with an automatic $200 late penalty the moment the deadline passes. Pass-through income is taxed to members at North Carolina's flat personal income rate — 3.99% for 2026, scheduled to decline further toward 2.49% by 2030 under HB 334, subject to revenue triggers.
Note: North Carolina's flat income tax rate is on a multi-year statutory phase-down schedule contingent on revenue triggers — confirm the current-year rate directly with the NC Department of Revenue before relying on a specific figure. Also confirm the exact current Annual Report fee ($202 online) directly at sosnc.gov, since some older references cite a lower figure for the related name-reservation fee that shouldn't be confused with the Annual Report cost.
Not a full roster, and not at formation. The Articles of Organization only identify whoever executes the filing. But North Carolina's Annual Report, due every April 15 under G.S. 57D-2-24, requires the name, title, and business address of at least one company official, and that report is public at sosnc.gov.
The Articles of Organization alone won't expose you, but the Annual Report will name a company official every April 15. Naming a Wyoming holding LLC as that company official — instead of yourself — is what keeps your name off North Carolina's public record year after year.
On its face, yes — N.C. Gen. Stat. § 57D-5-03(d) makes the charging order the exclusive remedy, with no stated distinction between single- and multi-member LLCs. No North Carolina court has directly tested this for a single-member LLC, so treat it as a strong statutory starting point rather than a settled guarantee.
Bottom line: North Carolina's Articles of Organization stay relatively clean, but the Annual Report re-exposes a company official every April 15 — so a Wyoming holding LLC needs to hold that role continuously, not just at formation.