Texas requires initial managers (manager-managed) or initial members (member-managed) on its public LLC filing. Texas requires a named governing person on its public Certificate of Formation, so a Wyoming holding LLC has to occupy that role for the structure to keep an individual's name off the record. See our Wyoming holding company guide and full list of anonymous LLC states for more.
$300
Certificate of Formation filing fee (Form 205)
Names public
Initial managers or members listed on the filing
§ 101.112
Exclusive-remedy charging order, single-member included
$0
State income tax
Texas is not a name-privacy state on its own filing. The Certificate of Formation (Form 205, $300) requires the name and address of each initial manager or member under Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 3.010, and that information is public through SOSDirect. Texas's real appeal is elsewhere — no state income tax, and an exclusive-remedy charging order statute (§ 101.112) that applies regardless of the number of members. To get privacy on top of that, a Wyoming holding LLC is named as the governing person instead of an individual, so Texas's public record shows the Wyoming entity rather than a person.
Texas's Certificate of Formation (Form 205) requires the name and address of each initial manager, if the LLC is manager-managed, or each initial member, if it is member-managed, under Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 3.010. That governing-person information is public in the SOSDirect system. Texas is a disclosure state on its own filing.
Because Form 205 requires a named governing person — an initial manager or member — the way to keep an individual's name off a Texas LLC's public Certificate of Formation is to name a Wyoming holding LLC in that slot instead. Texas's SOSDirect record then shows the Wyoming entity, not a person, and Wyoming's own filing discloses nothing further about who owns it. This is worth doing deliberately: Texas pairs well with a Wyoming parent because Texas itself has no state income tax and a strong, single-member-inclusive charging order statute (Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 101.112) — so the combination gets you Wyoming's name privacy on top of a Texas operating entity that already has real asset-protection teeth.
Naming a Wyoming LLC as the Texas governing person keeps a name off the Texas SOSDirect record, but it doesn't change federal obligations: beneficial owners of both entities must still be reported to FinCEN under the Corporate Transparency Act, which is not a public database.
Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 101.112 — exclusive remedy protection, including single-member LLCs. The charging order is the exclusive remedy a personal creditor may use against a member's Texas LLC interest, and the lien cannot be foreclosed. This applies regardless of whether the LLC has one member or several — protection comparable in strength to Wyoming's, though with a thinner body of Texas-specific case law. Confirm the exact amendment date against the current statute before citing it in a specific legal context (see volatilityNote): it should not be cited as a 2023 change without a fresh check against the Texas Legislature's actual session history.
Texas has no state personal income tax and no annual Secretary of State report for LLCs. Instead, a Public Information Report (Form 05-102) is due to the Comptroller by May 15 each year regardless of tax owed, and most LLCs under the No Tax Due threshold (roughly $2.65M in 2026) owe $0 franchise tax.
Note: The No Tax Due franchise-tax threshold (approximately $2.65M for 2026) is adjusted periodically by the Texas Comptroller — confirm the current figure before relying on it, and note the discrepancy between LLA's llc-search and anonymous-llc data files for Texas (see dataDiscrepancyNote) means this specific fact deserves a fresh look at the Texas Secretary of State's actual Form 205 instructions. Separately, this page previously cited a '2023 amendment' extending charging-order exclusivity to single-member Texas LLCs; that specific date could not be verified against a primary source and has been removed pending a fresh check of the statute's actual amendment history (Texas's protection for single-member LLCs may in fact predate 2023, similar to Nevada's 2011 amendment cited on this same page).
Note: apps/LLA/data/states/llc-search/tx.ts records membersPubliclyListed: false, but the more detailed apps/LLA/data/states/anonymous-llc/tx.ts states plainly that Texas requires the name and address of each initial manager or member on the public Certificate of Formation (citing Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 3.010) — the opposite conclusion. This page follows the statute-cited anonymous-llc account as the more authoritative source and treats Texas as a disclosure state; the llc-search boolean for Texas should be reviewed and likely corrected.
Yes. Form 205, the Certificate of Formation, requires the name and address of each initial manager (if manager-managed) or each initial member (if member-managed) under Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 3.010, and that governing-person information is public through SOSDirect.
Name a Wyoming holding LLC — not yourself — as the initial manager or member on Form 205. Texas's public record then shows the Wyoming entity, and Wyoming's own filing discloses no owners, so an individual's name stays off both states' records.
Yes. Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 101.112 makes the charging order the exclusive, non-foreclosable remedy, and that protection applies regardless of whether the LLC has one member or several — comparable to Wyoming's statute, though Texas has less case law specifically testing it.
Bottom line: Texas discloses a governing person on its own filing, so anonymity here requires naming a Wyoming holding LLC in that slot — worth doing given how strong Texas's own charging-order protection and tax profile already are.