Utah requires none at the initial Certificate of Organization — but at least one manager, member, or other governing person must be named on every Annual Renewal thereafter, and that entry is public on its public LLC filing. Utah's Certificate of Organization already omits member and manager names, but its Annual Renewal names a governing person every year — a Wyoming holding LLC should occupy that role from the first renewal onward, the same mechanic Nevada's Annual List requires. See our Wyoming holding company guide and full list of anonymous LLC states for more.
$59
Certificate of Organization filing fee
Governing person
Annual Renewal names one publicly — not the formation filing
§ 48-3a-503
Charging order exclusive, except a sole-member foreclosure carve-out
$18/yr
Annual Renewal fee
Utah is genuinely private at the moment of formation and genuinely not private a year later, which is a distinction most generic guides miss. The Certificate of Organization ($59, filed the same day online) makes member and manager names explicitly optional under Utah Code § 48-3a-201 — but the Annual Renewal ($18/year) requires naming at least one manager, member, or other governing person, and that name is public starting with the first renewal. Utah also carries a real asset-protection wrinkle: its charging-order statute (§ 48-3a-503) contains a sole-member foreclosure exception that lets a creditor's purchaser take over full ownership of a single-member LLC, a materially weaker outcome than states with Wyoming-style no-foreclosure language. A Wyoming holding LLC named as the governing person from the first Annual Renewal onward is the standard fix for the disclosure gap; the foreclosure exception takes a genuinely multi-member structure to fully address.
Utah's formation document — a Certificate of Organization under Utah Code § 48-3a-201, not an 'Articles of Organization' as it is sometimes mislabeled — makes the name and address of members and/or managers explicitly optional. What is required at formation is only the LLC name, registered agent, principal office address, and the organizer's signature. The real disclosure point arrives at the first Annual Renewal (and every one after): Utah requires at least one manager, member, or other governing person to be listed, and that name becomes part of the public record at that stage, not at formation.
Because Utah's Certificate of Organization doesn't ask for a member or manager's name — only the Annual Renewal does — the standard fix mirrors Nevada's Annual List mechanic: name a Wyoming holding LLC as the 'governing person' on the first Annual Renewal and every one after, so the only name Utah ever publishes is the Wyoming entity's rather than an individual's. This has to be set up from the very first renewal, not patched later, since a renewal that names an individual even once creates a permanent, searchable public record. Utah's own charging-order statute (Utah Code § 48-3a-503) is worth pairing with a Wyoming parent for a separate reason: it contains a sole-member foreclosure exception letting a foreclosure-sale purchaser take over full membership rights — not just distribution rights — when the Utah LLC has only one member. Naming a Wyoming LLC as that sole member does not, by itself, eliminate this exposure, because the Utah LLC would still have exactly one member (the Wyoming LLC) unless a second member is added — an attorney should confirm whether a genuinely multi-member structure is worth layering in if this specific gap matters to your situation.
Whatever Utah's public record shows in a given year, the LLC's beneficial owners — and any Wyoming holding LLC's owners — must still be reported to FinCEN under the Corporate Transparency Act, which is not a public database.
Utah Code § 48-3a-503 — generally the exclusive remedy, but with a sole-member foreclosure exception that lets a foreclosure purchaser obtain the member's entire interest — and become a member outright — when the LLC has only one member. Utah Code § 48-3a-503 generally makes the charging order the exclusive remedy, but the statute contains a built-in foreclosure exception: on a showing that distributions under a charging order won't pay the judgment debt within a reasonable time, a court may foreclose the lien and order the interest sold. When the LLC has only one member, the foreclosure purchaser obtains the member's entire interest — not just the transferable, economic interest a multi-member LLC's foreclosure purchaser would get — and becomes a member outright. This has been part of Utah's LLC Act since it adopted RULLCA in 2013 and is settled statutory language, not unsettled case law, but it is genuinely underreported in generic LLC-formation content.
Utah requires an $18 Annual Renewal due by the last day of the LLC's anniversary month (a $10 late-renewal surcharge applies if missed) — one of the lowest flat entity-level fees of any state in this series — but the renewal must name at least one manager, member, or other governing person, and that entry is public. Utah's flat personal income tax was recently reduced under SB 60 to roughly 4.5%, with a trend toward further legislative cuts; confirm the current-year rate with the Utah State Tax Commission.
Note: This page corrects two points worth double-checking directly at commerce.utah.gov/corporations before relying on them in a high-stakes situation: (1) Utah's own formation document is a Certificate of Organization, not an 'Articles of Organization' as both underlying LLA source files label it; and (2) apps/LLA/data/states/llc-search/ut.ts's membersPubliclyListed: true reasoning (member/manager names required directly on the formation filing) appears incorrect — the actual disclosure point is the Annual Renewal's governing-person field, per apps/LLA/data/states/anonymous-llc/ut.ts and direct verification against Utah's Division of Corporations guidance (see dataDiscrepancyNote). Also confirm the current $59 filing fee, $18 Annual Renewal fee, and personal income tax rate directly, since Utah's legislature has cut the flat income tax rate multiple times in recent years.
Note: apps/LLA/data/states/llc-search/ut.ts states Utah requires member/manager names directly on the formation filing with no anonymous option, while apps/LLA/data/states/anonymous-llc/ut.ts states the opposite — that member and manager names are optional at formation and the real disclosure point is the Annual Renewal's 'governing person' field. Independent verification against Utah's own Division of Corporations and Commercial Code guidance confirms the anonymous-llc account: the name and address of members and/or managers is explicitly optional on the Certificate of Organization (Utah's own document name under Utah Code § 48-3a-201 — not 'Articles of Organization' as both LLA files label it), and only the Annual Renewal requires naming at least one manager, member, or other governing person. So llc-search's underlying bottom-line conclusion (member/manager information eventually becomes public) is directionally correct, but its stated reason — disclosure at the formation-filing stage — is incorrect. This page treats Utah as a functional disclosure state (matching llc-search's boolean and Nevada's nv.ts precedent for a similar Annual-List-driven mechanic), but locates the actual disclosure point at the Annual Renewal, per apps/LLA/data/states/anonymous-llc/ut.ts and direct confirmation against Utah's Division of Corporations guidance.
Not at formation. Utah's Certificate of Organization (Utah Code § 48-3a-201) makes member and manager names explicitly optional. The disclosure point is the Annual Renewal, which requires naming at least one manager, member, or other governing person — and that name is public from the first renewal onward.
Name a Wyoming holding LLC as the governing person on the first Annual Renewal and every one after, the same mechanic Nevada's Annual List requires. Setting this up only after the first renewal is filed under an individual's name won't work — the record from that renewal stays public and searchable.
Not for a single-member LLC. Utah Code § 48-3a-503 generally makes the charging order the exclusive remedy, but if the LLC has only one member, a successful foreclosure purchaser obtains the member's entire interest and becomes a member outright — a materially weaker outcome than Wyoming's no-foreclosure rule, and one a Wyoming parent alone doesn't fully cure unless a second member is added.
Bottom line: Utah's Certificate of Organization is private at formation, but the Annual Renewal names a governing person every year afterward — a Wyoming holding LLC needs to occupy that role from the very first renewal, not just at formation, for Utah's privacy to actually hold.