Does Florida allow anonymous LLCs?

Florida does not allow truly anonymous LLCs. When you form a Florida LLC, the Articles of Organization filed with the Division of Corporations must name at least one of the following: a manager (in a manager-managed LLC) or an authorized member (in a member-managed LLC). That person's name and a street address go onto the public record. The same disclosure is repeated every year in the mandatory annual report (due by May 1, $138.75 filing fee).

All of this is published on Sunbiz.org, Florida's free, fully searchable business database. Anyone — a competitor, a journalist, a process server, a curious neighbour — can type your company name and see who manages it. There is no "private" or "anonymous" filing option in Florida, and no fee you can pay the state to suppress it. This is the key fact: the controlling person on a Florida LLC is always visible.

Florida is not unusual here. Most US states publish member or manager information. Only a handful — Wyoming, New Mexico, Delaware and Nevada among them — let you keep owners off the public record. We cover the full ranking in our anonymous LLC by state guide.

The Articles of Organization

To register, you file Articles of Organization with the Florida Division of Corporations (the standard state filing fee is $125). The form requires the LLC name, principal place of business address, registered agent name and address, and — critically — the name and address of each manager or authorized member. There is no box to keep this private.

The annual report

Every Florida LLC must file an annual report between January 1 and May 1 each year. It re-confirms the managers/members and addresses on file. Miss it and a $400 late fee applies; ignore it and the state administratively dissolves the company. So the disclosure isn't a one-time event — it's renewed publicly every year.

Why a registered agent doesn't fix it

People often assume hiring a registered agent makes the LLC anonymous. It doesn't. A registered agent only accepts legal mail and lawsuits on the company's behalf. Florida still requires a real manager or member name on the filing. The agent's address can shield your home address, but it cannot replace the human name the state demands.

If you genuinely need to operate in Florida but don't want your own name on Sunbiz, the accepted, legal approach is to put an anonymous holding company between you and the Florida LLC. Here's how it works:

1. Form an anonymous holding LLC first — typically a Wyoming LLC (or a New Mexico LLC). These states publish no owner or manager names.
2. Make the holding company the manager and member of your Florida LLC. On the Florida Articles, you list the Wyoming company's name as the manager — not your own.
3. Your name lives only in the private operating agreements. The Wyoming operating agreement (which is never filed with any state) records that you own the Wyoming LLC. Nothing on the public record ties you to either entity.

The result: when someone searches your Florida LLC on Sunbiz, they see "[Your] Holdings LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company" as the manager. The trail stops at the Wyoming company, and Wyoming refuses to publish who owns that. This is a standard structure used by real-estate investors and operating businesses, and it is entirely legal — you are not hiding anything from the IRS or your bank, only from the public database.

For most founders whose goal is privacy rather than a physical Florida presence, the table makes the call obvious: a single Wyoming LLC gives you the anonymity, the protection and the no-income-tax treatment without the cost and admin of stacking two companies.

Wyoming is the standard state for a genuinely anonymous US LLC. It publishes no member or manager names, has no state income tax, low annual fees, and the strongest charging-order protection in the country — including for single-member LLCs. That's exactly why our ready-made companies are Wyoming LLCs.

And there's a speed angle most privacy guides miss. Whether you form in Florida or Wyoming, you still wait two to four weeks for the company to register and for the IRS to issue an EIN before any bank or Stripe will onboard you. Our ready-made Wyoming companies already exist and already have their EIN. Ownership transfers into your name within 24 hours — privacy and a working company on day one, for $1,000 with a money-back guarantee. Prefer a fresh registration in your own chosen name? We'll file a new Wyoming LLC for $549.

For a deeper look at why Wyoming wins on privacy specifically, read our anonymous Wyoming LLC guide.