@Opus 17 wrote:
If you did register as an LLC, then the membership is determined by what you put on the papers. If you included your wife then it is a two member LLC; if you only listed yourself it is a single member LLC...
That is not necessarily the case because the "papers" (aka Articles of Organization) filed with the state typically only require the name of the person registering the LLC, the agent for service of process, and the name of a responsible party for the LLC (i.e., a person who is authorized to legally bind the LLC).
Merely by reviewing the Articles, you would generally have no idea whether the LLC has one member or a thousand. Information of that type is usually found in the Operating Agreement, which is not filed with the state.
You're most likely conflating the procedure for obtaining an EIN from the IRS for the LLC with the state registration process. With respect to the former, the IRS does require the applicant to designate whether the LLC is a single-member or multiple-member LLC.
