Wyoming motor fuel tax bonds for gasoline & diesel licensees.
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The Wyoming Department of Transportation will not issue a gasoline or diesel fuel license without a bond on file: a $50,000 minimum bond per fuel family, or six months of your fuel-tax liability if that is greater. A surety specialist reviews the file and returns a quote, usually within one business day.
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How much does a Wyoming motor fuel tax bond cost?
It is underwritten: the premium is quoted from the bond amount and your financial picture, so there is no flat price to show.
From license application to bond on file.
WYDOT will not issue a fuel license until the bond is on file with Fuel Tax Administration. Here is the whole process, start to finish:
Send us the amount WYDOT set
Apply online with the bond amount, the effective date, and your company details. Tell us which fuel families you handle — gasoline, diesel, or both — and your expected monthly taxable gallons, since that decides whether the six-month liability figure exceeds the statutory floor.
A surety specialist quotes it
A specialist reviews the file and returns your premium. The bond issues the moment you pay — no credit review of any kind, not even a soft pull. No obligation until you accept the quote.
Execute on the WYDOT form & file
We execute the bond on WYDOT’s Fuel Tax Surety Bond form with the surety’s power of attorney attached. You sign before a notary and send it to Fuel Tax Administration in Cheyenne with your license application, dated no later than the day you start business.
What it is and who needs it.
What the Wyoming fuel tax bond actually guarantees
Wyoming collects its motor fuel tax — twenty-four cents a gallon on gasoline under W.S. 39-17-104(a), with a parallel diesel tax in Article 2 — upstream, from the licensed suppliers, refiners, distributors, terminal operators, importers and exporters who move fuel into and through the state. Every one of them must hold an annual license from the Wyoming Department of Transportation under W.S. 39-17-106(a) (gasoline) and 39-17-206(a) (diesel), and WYDOT’s Fuel Tax Administration in Cheyenne administers both.
Because a licensee collects tax the state has not yet received, the statute backs that money with a bond. W.S. 39-17-106(e)(i) and, in identical words, 39-17-206(k)(i) require “all licensees” to file a bond of the statutory floor or six months of tax liability, whichever is greater. WYDOT’s own FAQ applies that floor to each fuel family: a licensee who imports or distributes both gasoline and diesel files for both, on one form that carries the total.
The bond must be written by a corporate surety licensed in Wyoming, approved as to form by the Wyoming attorney general, and made payable to the department. It guarantees payment of delinquent taxes, penalties and interest and the return of the license, and is conditioned on the licensee not practicing fraud or violating the law governing its fuel business. If WYDOT recovers against the bond, the licensee repays the surety — the bond protects the state, not you.
The requirement is front-loaded. WYDOT must waive the bond once a licensee shows three years of complete, accurate and timely filing — but it can require a bond again after a revocation or any violation, and must require one from a licensee that fails to file, remits insufficient funds or files late twice within twelve months. Failing to post the bond means the license is denied.
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Claims, renewal, filing, and what sets the price.
If a claim is made
A claim comes from the party the bond protects, the obligee named on the form, when the duty the bond guarantees is not met.
The surety investigates and pays a valid claim, up to the bond amount. You then repay the surety: a surety bond is a guarantee of your performance, not insurance for you.
Renewal and term
Term and renewal are set in the underwriter's quote.
Keep the bond in force for as long as the obligation behind it runs.
How to file it
Execute on the WYDOT form & file. We execute the bond on WYDOT’s Fuel Tax Surety Bond form with the surety’s power of attorney attached. You sign before a notary and send it to Fuel Tax Administration in Cheyenne with your license application, dated no later than the day you start business.
What sets the price
This bond is underwritten: the premium is quoted from the bond amount and your financial picture, so there is no flat price to show.
One application, one specialist review.
These are the actual fields: the bond amount WYDOT requires, the effective date, and your company and ownership details. A surety specialist reviews it and returns a quote, typically within one business day. Free until your bond is issued.
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Get licensed and start moving fuel.
Send us the bond amount WYDOT requires for your fuel license, and a surety specialist quotes the bond — typically within one business day. Free until issued.