How to Apply for an EIN in Wyoming

The EIN step itself

One federal form, one agency, the same options wherever the business sits: online, fax, mail, or the international phone line. The method decides the timeline, not the state. Every method and what it actually takes covers that in full, and it applies to Wyoming unchanged.

What Wyoming needs first

Form your entity with the Wyoming Secretary of State, Business Division before applying. The IRS asks for the legal name and formation date exactly as the state recorded them, and a mismatch is one of the common causes of a rejected application.

Wyoming assigns its own filing ID. It identifies your company in state records and is not a tax ID. It cannot be used where an EIN is asked for, and the IRS has no record of it.

What Wyoming requires once you have the EIN

• File the annual report and pay the annual report license tax with the Secretary of State by the first day of the anniversary month each year; the tax is based on assets located in Wyoming.
• Register with the Wyoming Department of Revenue for a sales and use tax license if the LLC sells taxable goods or services, and with the Department of Workforce Services for unemployment insurance when it hires — both ask for the EIN.

What is actually different about Wyoming

• Wyoming's articles of organization do not list the members or managers, so the public record shows only the company name, the registered agent, and the organizer. The annual report is where a manager or member signs, which is why Wyoming is chosen for privacy and why the annual report is the filing that matters.
• Wyoming has no state income tax and no general state business license, so for most LLCs the only recurring state filing is the Secretary of State annual report with its license tax, which is computed on assets located in Wyoming rather than on income. Above a certain tax amount the report must be filed on paper rather than online.
• The Wyoming Secretary of State assigns a filing ID at registration, and the online annual report wizard runs on it rather than on the company name. Owners who do not have the ID can look it up on the first page of the annual report screens by searching the LLC name.