Kentucky Foreign Registration›Wyoming
Taking a Wyoming LLC into Kentucky: costs, forms and dates
For a Wyoming LLC the Kentucky bill is $90 for the certificate and $15 for the first annual report, set beside Wyoming's own $60 annual minimum: $165 through that first report. Kentucky takes no home-state certificate, so the free one Wyoming offers online stays unused. Form FBE handles a Wyoming company exactly as it handles any other, and each state keeps its own calendar.
Wyoming beside Kentucky
| Point | Wyoming | Kentucky |
|---|---|---|
| Good standing paper | $0 online, and unnecessary for Kentucky | Item 10 certification |
| Entry | Nothing to file at home | Form FBE, $90 |
| Yearly payment | Annual minimum $60 | Annual report, $15 |
| Agent | A Wyoming agent | An agent with a street office in Kentucky |
What delay would cost a Wyoming LLC
Ninety days of Kentucky work without a certificate adds $180 in daily charges before a Wyoming LLC files, and meanwhile it cannot sue a Kentucky customer. Because Wyoming asks for no certificate for Kentucky, nothing on the Wyoming side slows the filing down.
Confirm Wyoming standing before signing
By signing item 10, the signer represents that the LLC validly exists under Wyoming law. Pulling the Wyoming certificate costs $0 online, so keeping a copy beside the Kentucky filing is easy even though Kentucky does not request it.
Moving Wyoming facts onto the form
Write the Wyoming name in item 2 exactly as Wyoming has it, Wyoming in item 4 and the Wyoming formation date in item 5. Item 6 can hold any principal office mailing address, and Kentucky sends its mail there. Item 7 wants a Kentucky agent with a street office, since a Wyoming agent does not serve across the border.
What Kentucky publishes about you
The application is a public filing. It names the managers or officers and their business addresses in item 8, and that item accepts a PO box. Members who do not manage the LLC do not appear. If privacy drove the choice of Wyoming, weigh how much the Kentucky record will reveal.
Who signs for a Wyoming LLC
Kentucky accepts the signature of an officer, chairman of the board, member, manager, trustee or partner. At a Wyoming LLC that is a manager or a member, with a printed name, title and date. Because item 10 is a certification, choose the person best placed to confirm the LLC's standing at home.
The principal office, in Wyoming or elsewhere
Item 6 takes the principal office mailing address, and that address can be in Wyoming. Kentucky writes to it, including with any notice of a ground for revocation, so it must be an address where mail is opened. A move is reported on a $10 statement of change.
The yearly Kentucky report
Between January 1 and June 30 each year, the LLC reconfirms its Kentucky registered office and agent and its principal office, and lists its managers if it has any. The fee is $15, and no financial information is requested. A corrected annual report costs $15, and a change of registered agent or office is a $10 statement, and moving the principal office is another $10 statement, since Kentucky mails its notices there. The Wyoming minimum is a separate matter with a separate form.
Leaving Kentucky later
Leaving takes a certificate of withdrawal, $40, which gives up the Kentucky authority and sends any Kentucky-era claims to the Secretary of State as a mailbox. Wyoming sees no change at all, and the Wyoming minimum carries on under its own rules. The Form WFE page has the details of the six statements the form makes.
Three years of filings, side by side
| Time | Wyoming | Kentucky |
|---|---|---|
| Year one | $60 minimum | $90 certificate |
| Year two | $60 minimum | $15 annual report |
| Year three | $60 minimum | $15 annual report |
First-year arithmetic
The Kentucky certificate at $90, the Wyoming minimum at $60 and the first Kentucky report at $15 add up to $165. The Kentucky report is due in the window of January 1 to June 30.
Example: a furniture shop in Paducah
A Wyoming LLC that sells restored furniture opens a staffed storefront in Paducah. A shop with employees goes well past the exempt activities, so it registers. A Paducah firm becomes agent and signs the consent, a manager signs Form FBE and files on FastTrack, and the next January the first annual report goes in. The Wyoming minimum carries on under Wyoming's schedule.
Registering a Wyoming LLC in Kentucky
Confirm Wyoming standing
Item 10 rests on it.
Secure a Kentucky agent
A street office and a signed consent.
Complete Form FBE
Wyoming name, jurisdiction, formation date, managers.
File on FastTrack
$90.
Wyoming questions
Must I attach a Wyoming certificate?
No. Item 10 is a certification on the form, not an attachment.
Will my members be listed in Kentucky?
Only if they are also the managers.
Does Kentucky registration alter my Wyoming dates?
No. Wyoming keeps its own fees and dates.
Our fee and Kentucky's
Start my Kentucky filing
KY+ $90 Kentucky fee
$199
- Form FBE, the Certificate of Authority (Foreign Business Entity), completed from your answers
- The signed statements Kentucky wants from your agent and your authorized signer, collected for you
- A Kentucky registered office and agent: ours, or the ones you already use
- Online submission through FastTrack, the file-stamped record, and the county clerk copy prepared
- Renewal: after the first year, the agent service renews at $149 a year
Kentucky's $90 is its own line at checkout. The county clerk bills separately for its copy. $199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.
Sources
- Kentucky Secretary of State, business filing fees
- Kentucky FastTrack, apply for a certificate of authority
- KRS 14A.6-010, annual report
- Kentucky Form FBE, certificate of authority for a foreign business entity
- Wyoming Secretary of State, Business Division fee schedule
- KRS 14A.9-020, consequences of transacting business without authority
- KRS 14A.9-030, application for a certificate of authority
- Kentucky Form POC, moving a principal office address
- KRS 14A.9-040, amended certificate of authority
- KRS 14A.5-010, a new principal office address
- Kentucky Secretary of State, business filing FAQs
- Kentucky Secretary of State, annual reports
- Kentucky Form RAC, changing a registered agent or registered office
- Kentucky Form WFE, certificate of withdrawal of a foreign business entity
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