Oregon requires at least one member (if member-managed) or all managers (if manager-managed), plus an authorized representative — required on the Articles of Organization itself and reaffirmed every year on the Annual Report on its public LLC filing. Oregon's Articles of Organization require a named member, manager, or authorized representative from the moment of filing, and the Annual Report repeats that disclosure every year — so a Wyoming holding LLC must be the listed party throughout the entity's life, not just at formation, for privacy to hold. See our Wyoming holding company guide and full list of anonymous LLC states for more.
$100
Articles of Organization filing fee
1 name required
Member, manager, or rep named on the Articles
$100/yr
Annual Report reaffirms disclosure
§ 63.259
Charging order remedy — exclusivity unresolved
Oregon is one of the more transparent states in this series by design. Its Articles of Organization ($100) require, under ORS 63.047, the name and address of at least one member, manager, or authorized representative — public the moment the LLC is filed, not just later — and ORS 63.787 repeats that same disclosure every year on the $100 Annual Report. So genuine anonymity here is built, not filed: a Wyoming holding LLC has to be the named party from the Articles onward. Oregon's charging-order statute is also worth knowing about independent of privacy: ORS § 63.259 lacks exclusive-remedy language, and the Oregon Supreme Court's 2018 decision in Law v. Zemp explicitly left open whether a charging order is a member's only remedy — a real reason a Wyoming parent adds value beyond the privacy layer.
Oregon does not let an LLC file without naming a person. Under ORS 63.047, the Articles of Organization must carry the name and address of at least one member, manager, or authorized representative with direct knowledge of the business, and that name posts to the public Oregon Business Registry the moment the LLC is formed — not just later on an annual filing. ORS 63.787 repeats the requirement every year on the Annual Report: the names and addresses of all managers (if manager-managed) or at least one member (if member-managed) must be reported and become public record. A PO box can stand in for a home address, but the name itself is never shielded.
Because Oregon requires a named member, manager, or authorized representative on the Articles of Organization itself — not just on a later annual filing — a Wyoming holding LLC has to occupy that role from day one for the structure to work. Name the Wyoming LLC as the member (or as the manager, in a manager-managed filing) on Oregon's Articles, and re-list the same Wyoming entity accurately on every Annual Report afterward. Oregon is also worth pairing with a Wyoming parent for asset protection: its charging-order statute (ORS § 63.259) doesn't contain exclusive-remedy language, and the Oregon Supreme Court's Law v. Zemp (2018) explicitly declined to resolve whether a charging order is a member's sole remedy — a genuinely open question Wyoming's statute doesn't leave hanging.
Naming a Wyoming LLC as the Oregon filing's member or manager keeps a name off Oregon's public registry, 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.
ORS § 63.259 — charging order available, but exclusivity left explicitly unresolved by the Oregon Supreme Court. ORS § 63.259 lets a court issue a charging order and even appoint a receiver over a member's interest, but contains no 'exclusive remedy' language. The Oregon Supreme Court had a direct chance to settle the exclusivity question in Law v. Zemp, 362 Or 302 (2018), and explicitly declined to — it addressed only what ancillary provisions a charging order may include. Whether a creditor can go further than a charging order against an Oregon LLC interest remains a genuinely open question, not a confirmed protection, which is a meaningfully weaker starting point than Wyoming's express exclusive-remedy statute.
Oregon requires a $100 Annual Report due by the last day of the LLC's anniversary month — the same filing that reaffirms member/manager disclosure. There is no Oregon franchise tax and no state sales tax; pass-through income is taxed to members at Oregon's graduated personal rates up to 9.9%, and the Corporate Activity Tax (0.57%) applies only above $1 million in Oregon commercial activity.
Note: Confirm the $100 formation fee and $100 Annual Report fee directly at sos.oregon.gov. Oregon's charging-order exclusivity question was last addressed by the state's highest court in 2018 (Law v. Zemp) and left open — treat that as unresolved rather than either confirmed or denied, and verify no subsequent case or statutory amendment has changed the answer before relying on it.
Yes. Under ORS 63.047, the Articles of Organization must include the name and address of at least one member, manager, or authorized representative, and that name is public on the Oregon Business Registry from the moment of formation — not just on a later annual filing.
Name a Wyoming holding LLC as the member (or manager) on Oregon's Articles of Organization rather than an individual, and re-confirm that same entity on every Annual Report. Because Oregon's disclosure starts at formation, the Wyoming layer has to be in place from day one.
No, and the gap is unusually well documented. ORS § 63.259 has no exclusive-remedy language, and the Oregon Supreme Court's Law v. Zemp (2018) explicitly declined to decide whether a charging order is a member's sole remedy. That is a real reason, beyond privacy, that owners pair an Oregon operating LLC with a Wyoming parent.
Bottom line: Oregon requires a named member, manager, or authorized representative on the Articles of Organization itself and every Annual Report after, so real anonymity here comes entirely from a Wyoming holding LLC occupying that role from formation onward.