Vermont does not require member or manager names in its own public LLC filing. Vermont's Articles of Organization leave member and manager fields optional, so a Wyoming holding LLC's real job is filling the (blank) member line in your private operating agreement rather than a public filing field — and, given § 4074(g)'s sole-member foreclosure carve-out, it's worth deciding deliberately whether the Vermont subsidiary should carry more than one member of record. See our Wyoming holding company guide and full list of anonymous LLC states for more.
$155
Articles of Organization filing fee
Optional
Member/manager fields — public only if filled in
$250 min
Business Entity Income Tax (BEIT) minimum
§ 4074(g)
Sole-member foreclosure carve-out — a real gap
Vermont doesn't require a member or manager name on its Articles of Organization ($155) — but it doesn't prohibit one either. The form invites you to list members and managers alongside the management-structure question, and Vermont's $45 (sometimes cited as $35) Annual Report is a routine informational filing rather than an ownership disclosure. That makes Vermont a no-disclosure state by default rather than by design: leave the optional fields blank, use a formation service as organizer, and name a Wyoming holding LLC as the member in your private operating agreement. The one Vermont-specific trap worth knowing is 11 V.S.A. § 4074(g) — a sole-member foreclosure carve-out that a Wyoming parent doesn't erase on its own unless the Vermont subsidiary carries more than one member of record.
Vermont's Articles of Organization ask whether the LLC is member-managed or manager-managed and invite you to list members or managers, but nothing under 11 V.S.A. requires you to fill those fields in — only the organizer who signs the filing is mandatory. Vermont's $45 Annual Report is described by the state as a routine informational filing rather than a detailed ownership disclosure. The practical effect is that Vermont behaves like a no-disclosure state by default, but only because the optional fields are left blank — anything typed into them is immediately public and searchable at bizfilings.vermont.gov, which makes Vermont's privacy closer to Colorado's or Michigan's (disclosure-by-choice) than to a state that never asks the ownership question at all.
Because Vermont's member and manager fields are optional rather than mandatory, the cleanest approach is to leave them blank on the public Articles of Organization and name a Wyoming holding LLC as the member only in the (private) operating agreement — nothing about that ownership choice needs to touch bizfilings.vermont.gov at all. One nuance worth flagging: installing a Wyoming holding LLC as the Vermont LLC's sole member does not, by itself, escape Vermont's sole-member foreclosure carve-out at 11 V.S.A. § 4074(g) — from Vermont's perspective the operating LLC is still a single-member LLC, just owned by an entity instead of a person, so a judgment creditor's foreclosure purchaser can still obtain the entire membership interest. The Wyoming parent is doing real work on privacy and on Wyoming's own stronger asset-protection statute, but it doesn't automatically fix Vermont's specific single-member gap unless the Vermont subsidiary is structured with more than one member of record.
Leaving Vermont's optional member fields blank keeps names off bizfilings.vermont.gov, but it doesn't change federal law: beneficial owners of the Vermont 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.
11 V.S.A. § 4074(c), (g) — exclusive remedy in name, but foreclosure is expressly permitted and a sole member's foreclosure purchaser obtains full membership. 11 V.S.A. § 4074 generally makes the charging order the exclusive remedy, but subsection (c) allows foreclosure on a showing that distributions won't satisfy the judgment within a reasonable time, and subsection (g) contains a sole-member carve-out: when the foreclosed member is the LLC's only member, the purchaser obtains the member's entire interest — not just an economic interest — and becomes a member outright, while the original owner is dissociated. This mirrors Utah's and Wisconsin's statutes and is a materially weaker outcome than a multi-member LLC's foreclosure purchaser gets.
Vermont charges no franchise tax on LLCs. The Secretary of State's Annual Report fee is cited at $35 in some sources and $45 in others (confirm the current figure directly at bizfilings.vermont.gov), due by the last day of the LLC's anniversary month. LLCs taxed as partnerships or S-corporations also owe Vermont's Business Entity Income Tax (BEIT), with a $250-per-year minimum that applies even in a zero-revenue year. Pass-through income is taxed to members at Vermont's graduated personal income tax rates, 3.35% to a top marginal 8.75% (2026).
Note: Vermont's Annual Report fee has conflicting sources ($35 vs. $45) — confirm the current figure directly at bizfilings.vermont.gov before relying on it. Separately, no published Vermont case specifically addressing single-member LLC veil-piercing could be confirmed for this guide, so treat the sole-member foreclosure exposure in § 4074(g) as the more load-bearing risk than piercing itself, and verify both points before using this page for a specific asset-protection plan.
No, but it asks. Vermont's Articles of Organization invite you to list members or managers and indicate the management structure, but nothing requires you to name them — only the organizer who signs the filing is mandatory. Anything you do enter, though, becomes public at bizfilings.vermont.gov.
Leave the optional member and manager fields blank on the Articles of Organization, and use a formation service as organizer rather than signing yourself. Name a Wyoming holding LLC as the member in your private operating agreement — that document is never filed with the state.
Not automatically. 11 V.S.A. § 4074(g) lets a foreclosure purchaser of a sole member's interest take full membership, and a Vermont LLC owned by a single Wyoming holding LLC is still a single-member LLC from Vermont's perspective. The carve-out is only avoided if the Vermont subsidiary has more than one member of record.
Bottom line: Vermont's member and manager fields are optional, not closed, so privacy here depends on leaving them blank — and a Wyoming holding LLC adds real value both for that discipline and, with the right structure, for closing Vermont's sole-member foreclosure gap.