--- title: "Anonymous LLC in Arkansas: How to Keep Your Name Private 2026 | LLC Attorney" description: "Arkansas is not a true anonymous LLC state, but a Wyoming holding company as your member keeps your name off Arkansas public records. Guide and steps inside." canonical: https://llcattorney.com/states/ar/anonymous-llc-arkansas image: https://llcattorney.com/images/share-cover.png source_path: /states/ar/anonymous-llc-arkansas --- Key Takeaways - Arkansas does not require member or manager names, though it is not a sealed-privacy state in public LLC formation filings - Your registered agent's address — not yours — appears on the Arkansas Secretary of State business entity search - $50 Articles of Organization filing fee; a flat $150 Annual Franchise Tax Report due May 1 to the Arkansas Secretary of State (sos-franchise.ark.org), with a $25 penalty plus 10% annual interest if it is missed - Arkansas makes the charging order the exclusive creditor remedy for a multi-member LLC under Ark. Code Ann. § 4-38-503, but the same statute lets a court foreclose and order a sale of a sole-member LLC interest when distributions will not satisfy the judgment within a reasonable time — a gap that a Wyoming holding-member structure helps close - Federal obligation: the Corporate Transparency Act requires all beneficial owners to report to FinCEN regardless of state-level anonymity — state privacy does not eliminate this federal requirement - Same-day filing available through LLC Attorney at no markup on state fees Arkansas is an affordable state to form an LLC at $50, but it is not one of the handful of states that keep owner identities private by law. The Articles of Organization do not force you to list members or managers, yet the filing form invites that information, and anything you enter lands in the Secretary of State's public business search. To operate privately in Arkansas, owners typically make a Wyoming holding LLC the member of the Arkansas company, so the public record points to the Wyoming entity instead of a person. This guide explains how that structure works, the exact steps to file in Arkansas, where the charging-order protection in Ark. Code Ann. § 4-38-503 is strong and where it is not, and the federal FinCEN obligations that apply no matter where you form. Same-day filing is available through LLC Attorney starting at $49. $50Articles of Organization filing fee Not by statutePrivacy comes from structure, not Arkansas law § 4-38-503Charging order — exclusive only for multi-member LLCs $49LLC Attorney formation starting price ## What Is an Anonymous LLC? An anonymous LLC is a limited liability company structured so that the owner's name does not appear in publicly searchable state records. It is not a separate legal entity type — it is a standard LLC formed in a state whose filing requirements do not mandate member or manager disclosure. In most states, the Articles of Organization requires you to list the names and addresses of members or managers. Those filings become part of the state's public business database, searchable by anyone. In Arkansas, Arkansas does not mandate member or manager names on the Articles of Organization, but the filing form does invite owner and manager details that become public once entered, so privacy here depends on leaving those fields out and naming a non-disclosing member rather than on any statutory shield. The result: someone searching the Arkansas Secretary of State business entity search for your LLC finds the entity name, the registered agent's address, and the formation date. Your name does not appear. This structure is used by real estate investors who do not want tenants researching their ownership portfolio, business owners who prefer to separate their public persona from their holdings, high-net-worth individuals protecting assets from litigation research, and online entrepreneurs who operate under a business identity separate from their personal name. ## Why Arkansas? How It Compares to Other Privacy States Arkansas is one of four states that does not require member or manager names in public LLC filings. The others most commonly used for anonymous formation are Wyoming, New Mexico, Delaware, and Nevada. What makes Arkansas stand out: Arkansas sits outside the small group of states that hide ownership by law, which changes the strategy entirely. The Arkansas Articles of Organization do not compel member names, but the form openly solicits manager and member information, and anything entered there is published in the Secretary of State's searchable database — so a careless filing exposes you even though the statute does not require it. The reliable way to operate privately in Arkansas is to place a Wyoming holding LLC as the member of your Arkansas LLC: Wyoming withholds owner names by statute and carries the country's strongest charging-order protection, while the Arkansas entity does business locally. That two-layer approach gives you Arkansas's low $50 formation fee and simple compliance with Wyoming-grade privacy and asset protection that Arkansas alone cannot deliver. If you are a non-Arkansas resident forming here purely for privacy, the service handles Arkansas anonymous LLC formation from anywhere in the country. You do not need to travel to Arkansas or have any prior connection to the state. ## Arkansas's Registered Agent Privacy Mechanism The core technical reason Arkansas enables anonymity is the registered agent requirement. Every Arkansas LLC must designate a registered agent with a physical Arkansas street address. That address appears on the Arkansas Secretary of State business entity search. Your address does not. When you use a professional registered agent service, the registered agent's address — not your home or business address — is the only address on the public record. Your LLC exists in the state's database as an entity with a registered agent. Your name and address are nowhere in the filing. LLC Attorney's Arkansas registered agent service is $125/year. Your registered agent's address appears on the Arkansas Secretary of State business entity search. LLC documents and legal notices are delivered to LLC Attorney's Arkansas office and forwarded to you through your secure client portal. The privacy limit to understand here: if you list yourself as the organizer on the Articles of Organization, your name may appear as organizer on the filing. In Arkansas, the organizer who signs the Articles of Organization is named on the public filing, so having LLC Attorney organize the entity for you keeps your own name off the document Arkansas posts to its business search. If you use LLC Attorney to file, LLC Attorney serves as the organizer, and your name does not appear anywhere on the formation document. ## What State Anonymity Does NOT Cover — Federal FinCEN Reporting This section is mandatory reading. State-level anonymity does not eliminate your federal disclosure obligation. The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), effective January 1, 2024, requires virtually every LLC formed in the United States to report its beneficial owners to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. This is a federal law that applies to every state, including Arkansas. What you must report to FinCEN: - Full legal name of each beneficial owner - Date of birth - Current residential street address - Identifying document number (driver's license or passport) and an image of that document A "beneficial owner" is anyone who owns 25% or more of the company, or anyone who exercises substantial control over the company. **Is the FinCEN report public?** No. Beneficial ownership reports go to FinCEN's secure database. They are not searchable by the public, tenants, business partners, or civil litigants. Law enforcement and certain financial institutions can access them under specific conditions. **The practical picture:** your name does not appear in Arkansas's public records. It does appear in FinCEN's non-public federal database. Arkansas-level anonymity protects you from public search — not from federal law enforcement. **Penalties for non-compliance:** willful failure to file a BOI report carries civil penalties of up to $500 per day and criminal penalties of up to $10,000 plus two years imprisonment. The service's formation packages include guidance on FinCEN BOI filing. If your LLC qualifies for an exemption (most larger companies and regulated entities do), your attorney can confirm exemption status during the formation process. ## Arkansas Anonymous LLC — Costs and Annual Obligations Maintaining an Arkansas LLC costs $50 to form and then a flat $150 Annual Franchise Tax Report every May 1, regardless of revenue or activity. The report is filed with the Arkansas Secretary of State at sos-franchise.ark.org — note that an earlier 2021 attempt to move franchise tax administration to the Department of Finance and Administration was reversed within months, so the Secretary of State remains the filing agency. A 2025 repeal bill (HB1750) failed in committee, so plan on the $150 continuing. Miss the deadline and Arkansas adds a $25 penalty plus 10% annual interest, and prolonged non-payment leads to administrative dissolution that quietly unwinds any privacy structure built on the entity. Arkansas levies no separate annual list and no LLC-level income tax; pass-through earnings are taxed to members at a top individual rate of 3.7%. ## How to Form an Anonymous LLC in Arkansas ### If You Do It Yourself **Step 1 — Choose a business name that does not reveal your identity.** Your LLC name must comply with Arkansas's naming requirements — it must include "Limited Liability Company," "LLC," or "L.L.C." and be distinguishable from existing Arkansas entities. Beyond the legal requirements, choose a name that does not connect back to your personal identity. Many anonymous LLC owners use a business-descriptive name (property address, investment theme, or project name) rather than a personal name-based name like "Johnson Holdings LLC." Search the Arkansas Secretary of State business entity search at sos.arkansas.gov to confirm availability. Your search is not a reservation — someone can register your name while you prepare paperwork. Arkansas LLC names must be distinguishable in the Secretary of State database and must carry 'Limited Liability Company,' 'LLC,' or 'L.L.C.' You can hold a name for 120 days with a $22.50 reservation while you arrange the privacy structure, which matters when you are coordinating an Arkansas entity with a Wyoming holding member. **Step 2 — Reserve your name if you need time to prepare (optional).** File a name reservation with the Arkansas Secretary of State, $22.50 fee. This holds the name for 120 days. Without a reservation, the name can be taken between your search and your Articles of Organization submission. **Step 3 — Select a professional registered agent — do not use your own address.** This step is non-negotiable for anonymity. The registered agent's address is the only address on the public filing. If you list your home or office address, your address becomes publicly searchable. You need a professional registered agent with a physical Arkansas street address. Research registered agent providers carefully. The registered agent's address will be the permanent public record for this LLC. Switching registered agents later requires a filed amendment ($22.50 fee) and creates a public paper trail of the change. **Step 4 — Decide whether to list yourself as organizer.** The organizer is the person or entity submitting the Articles of Organization. In Arkansas, the organizer who signs and submits the Articles of Organization is identified on the filing, and that filing is an open public record at the Arkansas Secretary of State. If you do not want your name on the filing at all, you have two options: use an attorney or formation service as the organizer, or confirm whether Arkansasallows organizers to be omitted after filing. **Step 5 — Complete and file the Articles of Organization.** Go to sos.arkansas.gov and complete the current version of the Articles of Organization (Form LL-01 (online at sos.arkansas.gov)). Always use the current form directly from the Arkansas Secretary of State — older versions are rejected at filing. Complete it with your LLC name exactly as chosen, your registered agent's full legal name and Arkansas street address, your management structure (member-managed or manager-managed), and the organizer's name and signature. **Privacy note on management structure:** in Arkansas, the Arkansas Articles of Organization do not force you to declare member-managed or manager-managed status, but the form does invite manager and member information that, once entered, becomes part of the public record. If you choose manager-managed, Arkansas does not legally require manager or member names on the Articles of Organization, but any name you type into the optional manager-information fields is published, so a privacy structure leaves those fields to the registered agent and a non-disclosing member. **Step 6 — File the Articles of Organization and pay the $50 fee.** Submit online at sos.arkansas.gov or by mail to the Arkansas Secretary of State office in Little Rock. Online filing processes in 1 to 3 business days for online filings. Mail-in takes significantly longer and has no tracking. **Step 7 — Wait for your approved Articles of Organization.** Your LLC does not legally exist until the Arkansas Secretary of State approves the filing. Standard processing is 1 to 3 business days for online filings. Your approved Articles of Organization is your LLC's founding document — keep it. Every bank will require a copy. **Step 8 — Draft your operating agreement — keep it private.** Your operating agreement is an internal document. It is not filed with the Arkansas Secretary of State and does not appear in any public database. This is where you document member ownership, management authority, and profit distribution. Unlike the Articles of Organization, the operating agreement can include your personal name without creating any public record. Arkansas treats the operating agreement as a private internal record under Ark. Code Ann. § 4-38-105 — it is never filed with the Secretary of State and never enters any public database, even though Arkansas's Uniform Limited Liability Company Act recognizes it as the controlling document among members. Keep the original with your company records. Give a copy to every member. A critical privacy caution: do not reference your operating agreement in any publicly filed document, and do not attach it to bank account applications where it could become a public or semi-public record without your knowledge. **Step 9 — Apply for a federal EIN.** Your LLC needs an EIN from the IRS. For single-member LLCs, the IRS defaults to using your Social Security Number as the responsible party identifier. This does not create a public record — EINs and their responsible party information are not publicly searchable — but it does create a federal connection between your SSN and your LLC. Apply at irs.gov/ein. Free, no government filing fee. Available Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern. The 15-minute inactivity timeout is real — do not start the application unless you have all information ready. **Step 10 — Open a business bank account.** Most banks require your approved Articles of Organization, your EIN confirmation (IRS CP-575 letter), your operating agreement, and the personal ID of authorized signers. Your bank will know who owns the LLC — federal anti-money-laundering rules require banks to collect beneficial owner information internally. That information stays within the bank and is not published in any database. Some banks have more streamlined processes for anonymous LLCs; others are skeptical of privacy structures. Call ahead and ask what they require for an LLC with a professional registered agent address. **Step 11 — File your FinCEN Beneficial Ownership Information report.** This is a mandatory federal step. Within 90 days of formation (for LLCs formed in 2024 or later), you must file a BOI report at fincen.gov/boi. The report is free. It is not public. It goes to FinCEN's secure law enforcement database. Failure to file carries civil penalties up to $500/day and criminal penalties up to $10,000 plus imprisonment. **Step 12 — Pay your annual Arkansas obligations.** Arkansas requires a flat $150 Annual Franchise Tax Report each May 1, filed with the Secretary of State at sos-franchise.ark.org. This is the single recurring state obligation, and it applies no matter how little the LLC earned. A missed deadline triggers a $25 penalty plus 10% annual interest, and sustained non-payment results in administrative dissolution — which ends the liability shield and the privacy arrangement you set up. Calendar May 1 every year, and confirm the current fee at the time you file in case the legislature revisits the repeal. If you would rather not manage the formation process, the FinCEN BOI filing, and the ongoing annual compliance yourself, the service handles Arkansas anonymous LLC formation starting at $49. Ready to Launch Your Business in Arkansas?Follow our fast, easy process to get started right now.[Start My Business](https://app.llcattorney.com/formation?intake_type=formation) ### If LLC Attorney Does It for You 1. Submit your information at llcattorney.com. Name preference, management structure, registered agent designation (LLC Attorney serves as your Arkansas registered agent), and your FinCEN BOI responsible party information. No forms to find, no state portal to navigate, no organizer name disclosure. 2. LLC Attorney files your Articles of Organization with the Arkansas Secretary of State, serves as your registered agent and organizer (so your name does not appear on the public filing), drafts your operating agreement, and files your FinCEN BOI report. Same-day filing available if needed. 3. Receive your approved Articles of Organization, EIN confirmation, operating agreement, and FinCEN BOI confirmation through your LLC Attorney client portal. Annual compliance reminders included so you never miss an obligation. ## Maintaining Your Arkansas LLC's Anonymous Status Forming anonymously is the first step. Maintaining anonymity requires ongoing discipline. What breaks anonymity: - Signing contracts in your personal name on behalf of the LLC. Always sign as "Your Name, Member/Manager, \[LLC Name\]" — but consider whether you need to sign at all, or whether an authorized manager or attorney can sign instead. - Using your home address anywhere in connection with the LLC — bank correspondence, business licenses, tax registrations. - Publishing your name as the owner in marketing materials, press releases, or social media profiles linked to the LLC. - Filing a DBA (doing business as) registration in states that require public disclosure of the LLC owner's identity. - Using your personal email address in formation documents, registered agent correspondence, or banking applications where it could be discovered. What does not break anonymity: - Your operating agreement listing your name. This is a private document not filed with any state agency. - Your FinCEN BOI report listing your name. This goes to a non-public federal database, not a public record. - Your bank account records. Banks collect beneficial owner information under federal anti-money-laundering law but do not publish it. ## Forming a Arkansas Anonymous LLC as a Non-Resident You do not need to live in Arkansas or have any connection to the state to form a ArkansasLLC. Arkansas allows non-residents to form LLCs and serves as one of the more commonly used states for out-of-state privacy formations. What you need as a non-Arkansas resident: - A Arkansas registered agent with a physical Arkansas street address (required regardless of residency) - A Arkansas mailing address for state correspondence (your registered agent's address satisfies this) - Payment of the $50 filing fee and ongoing the $150 Annual Franchise Tax Report due each May 1 **The foreign registration question:** if your anonymous LLC operates in a state other than Arkansas — meaning it has employees there, owns property there, or generates substantial revenue from customers there — that state may require you to register the LLC as a foreign entity. Foreign registration typically requires disclosing the LLC's principal address and registered agent in that state, and it may or may not require member/manager disclosure depending on the operating state's rules. Arkansas-level anonymity protects your name in Arkansas's public records. If you do business in another state and register as a foreign LLC there, that state's public records will show your Arkansas LLC's registration. Whether your name appears depends on that state's disclosure rules for foreign LLCs — not Arkansas's. If you operate across multiple states and anonymity matters in each, an attorney consultation can map which states require foreign registration and what each discloses. ## When Should You Consult an Attorney for Your Arkansas Anonymous LLC? On-demand attorney consultations for a flat rate per 30-minute session — no retainer required. Anonymous LLC formation benefits from attorney guidance on several scenarios: - **Privacy structure design:** whether a single Arkansas LLC is sufficient or a Wyoming holding company over your Arkansas LLC better fits your privacy and asset-protection goals. - **Operating agreement drafting:** a template operating agreement may not include the language needed to preserve anonymity in banking, litigation, and business dealings. - **Multi-state operations:** if you will do business in multiple states, some will require foreign registration. An attorney can map what each state requires and what it discloses. - **FinCEN BOI exemptions:** most LLCs must file a BOI report, but certain regulated entities qualify for exemptions. An attorney can confirm your exemption status. - **Asset transfer mechanics:** if you are moving existing assets into an anonymous LLC, the transfer documents must be drafted correctly to avoid tax events and creditor notification requirements. - **Arkansas-specific nuances:** Arkansas's charging-order statute (Ark. Code Ann. § 4-38-503) treats single-member and multi-member LLCs differently, and SB319 (2025) refined the surrounding provisions — an attorney can confirm whether a Wyoming holding member or a multi-member design best protects your specific Arkansas entity. ## When DIY Anonymity Breaks Down in Arkansas, and Where It Can't Protect You A Arkansas anonymous LLC hides your name from the public business registry. It does not make you untraceable, and there are specific, predictable points where DIY anonymity falls apart: - **The IRS responsible-party field.** Getting an EIN typically requires naming a responsible party with an SSN or ITIN. Listing yourself here is the most common self-inflicted privacy leak, and it happens after the LLC is already filed, when people assume the hard part is done. - **Litigation and subpoenas.** State anonymity is not a liability shield. In a lawsuit, a court can compel disclosure of the beneficial owner. Anonymity protects you from casual searches, not from legal process. - **Banking, KYC, and real-estate closings.** Banks and title companies are required to identify the beneficial owner. Your name will appear in those private files even when it never touches the public record. - **When you actually need structuring, not just a filing.** Multi-state operations, a nominee arrangement, or a double-LLC privacy structure are easy to get wrong in ways that defeat the privacy you paid for. These are attorney decisions, not form-filling. In Arkansas specifically, the fastest way to lose privacy is to fill in the optional manager and member fields on the Articles of Organization, because the Secretary of State publishes that filing verbatim — leaving those fields to the registered agent and a Wyoming holding member is what keeps your name out of the public search. You do not have to map these risks on your own. LLC Attorney's attorney-trained Business Success Advisors are free and can tell you which of these situations needs a licensed attorney, and flat-fee consultations (no retainer) are available when one does. ## What You Actually Get When You Form Your Arkansas Anonymous LLC with LLC Attorney Filing an LLC in Arkansas is the easy part. Keeping it private is harder, because Arkansas does not seal ownership for you — privacy fails the instant your name lands on the public filing, the EIN application, or a bank signature card, and a sole-member Arkansas LLC also exposes the membership interest to creditor foreclosure under § 4-38-503. A bare filing service that hands you the entity and disappears leaves every one of those gaps for you to manage alone. Included with LLC Attorney anonymous LLC formation, starting at $50: - A Arkansas filing structured to keep your name off the the Arkansas Secretary of State business entity search, using the state's privacy mechanism correctly rather than by accident. - Registered agent service at $125/year, so a third-party address — not yours — sits on the public record. - An EIN obtained without exposing you as the responsible party where the structure allows, the single most common way owners accidentally de-anonymize themselves. - An operating agreement that keeps members and managers off the public record while still documenting ownership privately. - Ongoing privacy maintenance across annual filings, so a routine renewal does not quietly put your name back on the record. - Access to attorney-trained Business Success Advisors at no charge, plus optional flat-fee attorney consultations (no retainer) when your situation needs a licensed attorney. Because Arkansas privacy depends on structure rather than statute, the value is in setting up the Wyoming holding member, the registered agent, and every adjacent step so they all point away from your name from day one. ## Starting Your Arkansas Anonymous LLC with LLC Attorney Arkansas's privacy structure depends on structure rather than statute — because Arkansas publishes whatever owner detail reaches the filing and can foreclose on a sole member's interest, so the privacy and the protection both have to be engineered at formation rather than assumed. Getting the organizer, registered agent, operating agreement, and FinCEN filing right at formation establishes your privacy foundation. Shortcuts at any of these steps create exposure that is hard to reverse. The service handles Arkansas anonymous LLC formation starting at $49. It serves as your registered agent and organizer — your name does not appear on the public filing. Same-day filing is available at no markup on state fees. FinCEN BOI filing guidance is included. On-demand attorney consultations in 30-minute increments cover operating agreement drafting, privacy structure design, and multi-state operating questions. See our [full pricing](/pricing) for all service tiers. Ready to Launch Your Business in Arkansas?Follow our fast, easy process to get started right now.[Start My Business](https://app.llcattorney.com/formation?intake_type=formation) ## Frequently Asked Questions Does forming an anonymous LLC in Arkansas really keep my name private? ![icon](/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Ficons%2FfaqPlus.png&w=128&q=75) Partly. Arkansas does not require member or manager names on the Articles of Organization, so a carefully prepared filing keeps your name out of the public business search. But Arkansas is not a statutory privacy state the way Wyoming or New Mexico are — the filing form solicits owner and manager details, and anything entered becomes public. For dependable anonymity, owners use a Wyoming holding LLC as the member of the Arkansas LLC, so the public record traces only to the Wyoming entity and the registered agent. Your name still appears in two non-public places: your operating agreement and your federal FinCEN beneficial ownership report. Arkansas can give you meaningful public privacy when structured deliberately, not anonymity from all government disclosure. What is the difference between a Arkansas anonymous LLC and a regular LLC? ![icon](/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Ficons%2FfaqPlus.png&w=128&q=75) The structure is identical — the difference is in Arkansas's filing requirements. Arkansas does not require member or manager names in the Articles of Organization. A standard LLC formed in a state like California would list member names publicly. A Arkansas LLC lists only the registered agent's address. Otherwise, both structures provide the same liability protection, management flexibility, and pass-through taxation. Do I still have to disclose my name somewhere if I form an anonymous LLC? ![icon](/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Ficons%2FfaqPlus.png&w=128&q=75) Yes — in two places. First, your operating agreement is a private internal document that typically names all members. Second, the Corporate Transparency Act requires a Beneficial Ownership Information report to FinCEN identifying all beneficial owners. Neither disclosure is public. FinCEN's database is accessible to law enforcement and certain financial institutions under specific conditions — not to the general public. Can I open a bank account with an anonymous LLC? ![icon](/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Ficons%2FfaqPlus.png&w=128&q=75) Yes. Banks require your Articles of Organization, EIN, operating agreement, and the personal ID of authorized signers. Federal anti-money-laundering rules also require banks to collect beneficial owner information internally. Your bank will know who owns the LLC — but that information stays within the bank and is not published in any database. Is an anonymous LLC legal? ![icon](/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Ficons%2FfaqPlus.png&w=128&q=75) Yes. Forming an LLC in a state that does not require member disclosure is fully legal. The structure is used by legitimate businesses, real estate investors, and privacy-conscious entrepreneurs nationwide. The only legal constraint is the federal FinCEN BOI reporting requirement, which applies to virtually every LLC regardless of where it is formed. What happens to my anonymity if I get sued? ![icon](/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Ficons%2FfaqPlus.png&w=128&q=75) A suit against your Arkansas LLC names the entity, not you, and a pre-litigation record search at the Secretary of State usually surfaces only the registered agent and, where used, a Wyoming holding member. The weak point in Arkansas is the personal-creditor side of a single-member LLC: under Ark. Code Ann. § 4-38-503, a court can foreclose on a sole member's interest if a charging order will not pay the judgment in a reasonable time. A Wyoming holding-member structure and multi-member design blunt that exposure. During litigation a court can still compel discovery of ownership — anonymity guards against casual searching, not a determined litigant with court authority. Can I convert my existing LLC into an anonymous LLC? ![icon](/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Ficons%2FfaqPlus.png&w=128&q=75) You cannot convert an existing LLC formed in a disclosure state into an anonymous one — the public record already exists. The most common approach is to form a new Arkansas LLC and transfer assets or business operations to it. An attorney consultation can walk through the transfer mechanics and tax implications. What is the annual cost to maintain a Arkansas anonymous LLC? ![icon](/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Ficons%2FfaqPlus.png&w=128&q=75) Arkansas's recurring cost is a flat $150 Annual Franchise Tax Report due May 1, filed with the Secretary of State at sos-franchise.ark.org — the same amount every year regardless of income. Formation is $50. A missed deadline adds a $25 penalty plus 10% annual interest. Members also pay Arkansas income tax at up to 3.7% on their share of pass-through earnings. Professional registered agent service adds roughly $100 to $300 per year, and if your privacy structure uses a Wyoming holding LLC as the member, that entity carries its own low annual cost as well. ## Learn More About Arkansas - [Arkansas LLC Formation](/states/ar/llc-formation-arkansas) - [Arkansas Registered Agent](/states/ar/registered-agent-arkansas) - [Wyoming Anonymous LLC](/states/wy/anonymous-llc-wyoming) - [Arkansas EIN Number](/states/ar/ein-number-arkansas)