South Carolina does not require member or manager names in its own public LLC filing. South Carolina already omits member names from its Articles of Organization no matter how the LLC is managed; a Wyoming parent mainly cleans up the organizer field and, if the SC LLC is manager-managed, the manager field, while adding charging-order certainty for a single-member structure. See our Wyoming holding company guide and full list of anonymous LLC states for more.
$110
Articles of Organization filing fee
Organizer only
No member names ever required; organizer is always public
§ 33-44-504(e)
Exclusive-remedy charging order, untested for single-member LLCs
$0
No annual report requirement for standard LLCs
South Carolina is one of the more privacy-friendly states in this series, and it earns that by omission rather than by an explicit statutory privacy provision: its Articles of Organization ($110) never ask for a member's name, whether the LLC is member-managed or manager-managed, and there is no annual report for a standard LLC to re-disclose anything later. The organizer is always public, and a manager-managed election does require manager names, but a Wyoming holding LLC's real value in South Carolina is less about hiding a name the state wasn't going to publish and more about the organizer field and about South Carolina's charging-order statute (§ 33-44-504(e)), which reads as strong but hasn't been tested by a South Carolina court against a single-member LLC.
South Carolina's Articles of Organization, under S.C. Code § 33-44-203, never ask for a member's name — that holds true whether the LLC is member-managed or manager-managed. What the statute does require is the name and address of each organizer, and, if the LLC is manager-managed, the name and address of each initial manager. South Carolina also has no annual report requirement for a standard pass-through LLC, so unlike most states there is no recurring filing that would re-publish manager information year after year.
Because South Carolina's own Articles of Organization never ask for a member's name — whether the LLC is member-managed or manager-managed — a Wyoming holding LLC doesn't close a privacy gap the way it does in a true disclosure state like Illinois or Texas. South Carolina simply never asks. Where a Wyoming parent still earns its place is the organizer field, which § 33-44-203 always makes public, and the manager field if the South Carolina LLC is ever structured manager-managed — naming a formation service as organizer, and a Wyoming LLC as manager if that structure is used, keeps both fields from resolving to an individual. It's also worth pairing for asset protection: South Carolina's charging-order statute (§ 33-44-504(e)) reads as a strong, facially neutral exclusive remedy, but no South Carolina court has directly tested it against a single-member LLC, so a Wyoming parent adds a layer of protection with a deeper body of case law behind it.
South Carolina not requiring a member's name doesn't change federal law: beneficial owners of the South Carolina LLC — and of any Wyoming holding LLC above it — must still be reported to FinCEN under the Corporate Transparency Act, which is not a public database.
S.C. Code § 33-44-504(e) — exclusive remedy by the statute's plain, facially neutral language, but untested in South Carolina courts for a single-member LLC specifically. S.C. Code § 33-44-504(e) states the charging order is the exclusive remedy by which a judgment creditor may satisfy a judgment from a member's distributional interest, drawing no distinction between single- and multi-member LLCs. Kriti Ripley, LLC v. Emerald Investments, LLC (S.C. 2013) is cited as a leading South Carolina charging-order opinion, but its specific holding on single-member exclusivity should be confirmed before being cited as directly on point — no reported South Carolina decision squarely tests the statute against a single-member fact pattern.
South Carolina does not require an annual report for a standard, pass-through-taxed LLC — a genuinely low ongoing compliance cost. An LLC that elects C-corp or S-corp tax treatment must file Form CL-1 within 60 days of formation ($25) and then ongoing corporate tax forms. South Carolina's top personal income tax rate for 2026 is 5.21% (down from 6% under H.4216).
Note: Confirm the $110 filing fee directly at sos.sc.gov. The least-settled fact on this page is whether Kriti Ripley, LLC v. Emerald Investments, LLC (2013) actually addresses single-member LLC charging-order exclusivity — its holding should be confirmed before being cited as directly on point rather than treated as settled SMLLC-specific precedent.
No, and this holds regardless of management structure. S.C. Code § 33-44-203 requires the name and address of each organizer, and of each initial manager if the LLC is manager-managed, but never a member's name. South Carolina also has no annual report for standard LLCs, so there is no recurring filing to re-disclose anything.
Mainly for the organizer field (always public) and, if the LLC is manager-managed, the manager field — plus asset protection. South Carolina's charging order statute (§ 33-44-504(e)) reads as strong, but no South Carolina court has tested it against a single-member LLC, and a Wyoming parent adds a deeper body of confirmed case law.
Not for a standard, pass-through-taxed LLC. An annual report obligation (Form CL-1, then ongoing corporate filings) only arises if the LLC elects C-corp or S-corp tax treatment — otherwise South Carolina has no recurring Secretary of State filing at all.
Bottom line: South Carolina already keeps member names off its filing and skips the annual report entirely — a Wyoming parent here mainly covers the organizer field and adds court-tested asset protection South Carolina's own untested statute doesn't yet offer.