Formation fee
$102
last verified 2026-09-05
record 29 of 51 · /llc/new-hampshire/
New Hampshire LLC
The trade name is New Hampshire's sharpest register
New Hampshire pairs its formation filing with an annual report that comes due as April opens, both priced on the state's own schedule. The Business Enterprise Tax recurs on a composite base and is filed with the revenue administration separately from that report. The office posts its current processing time as a dated observation and sells in-person expediting for pending filings.
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The trade name register is this sheet's outlier because registration is exclusive: the statute lets a registered holder sue to enjoin another's use of the name and recover profits derived from it. That remedy prints under the protection field with its citation. A resident individual whose office matches the registered office may serve as agent, and so may the company itself.
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Should you form your LLC in New Hampshire?
If the answer is yes, the home-state rule points to New Hampshire.
Office or storefront in New Hampshire?
Yes, it will
A business with a real footprint in New Hampshire files in New Hampshire. Forming anywhere else adds a foreign registration back home: two filings, two annual bills, two registered agents. The out-of-state discount does not survive that arithmetic.
No, it will not
This one answer cannot choose a state. Use the full four-question wizard with the place where the business will actually operate. Open the full wizard .
Annual report
$102
Due April 1, printed as the state writes it.
last verified 2026-09-05
Franchise tax
composite measure
New Hampshire calls it the Business Enterprise Tax, collected by New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration. No annual minimum is published for it yet.
last verified 2026-08-08
Anonymous LLC
no
Member or organizer names reach the public formation record here.
last verified 2026-08-10
Processing time
published, not as a range
The state publishes a processing time in prose rather than as a range, so this sheet links it instead of restating it. Expedited formation starts at $25.
as observed on 2026-08-07
Name designators
Must contain the words "limited liability company" or the abbreviation "L.L.C." or "LLC" or any other similar abbreviation. The name may contain the name of a member or manager, and it may not state or imply that the company is organized for a purpose other than one permitted by RSA 304-C:21 and by its certificate of formation.
Statute: RSA 304-C:32, I and II.
last verified 2026-08-05
Name reservation
$15
Optional filing that holds the name for 120 days before you form.
last verified 2026-08-05
DBA
trade name
One statewide register; the filing costs $50.
last verified 2026-08-06
An individual as the agent
allowed
Whether a person may hold the seat, so nobody has to be hired. The terms New Hampshire attaches, and the entity question, sit in the registered agent section.
last verified 2026-08-10
Late filing penalty
$50
New Hampshire charges this as a flat penalty on a late report. What follows a missed filing is in section 09.
last verified 2026-08-11
field 05 carries the date it was observed, not a promise: of the two halves beside it, only the expedited tiers are prices the state commits to
What are the New Hampshire DBA rules?
New Hampshire calls it the trade name, and keeps one statewide register for it. The state filing costs $50.
- Where an LLC files
- How long it lasts
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5 years
Registration runs five years from the date of filing (RSA 349:6) and reregistration is required at expiry (RSA 349:8). The Secretary of State forwards a renewal notice and form at least six months before expiry and mails a second notice at least 30 days before. Unless the registration is renewed within 30 days after expiration it is discontinued and the name is abandoned and free, and the Secretary of State cancels from the register every registration more than five years old and not renewed.
- Newspaper publication
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not required
- What the filing protects
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exclusive to the registrant
RSA 349:10 gives a person, proprietorship, partnership or association that has adopted and registered a trade name an express statutory remedy: it may sue to enjoin any other party's use or display of the name, the court may order the defendant to pay over all profits derived from the use, and it may order counterfeits and imitations destroyed. Fraudulent registration is separately actionable in damages and is a misdemeanor for a natural person, a felony for any other. The register is also screened in both directions: RSA 349:1, IV(a) tests a proposed trade name against entity and reserved names, and RSA 304-C:32, III(a) puts RSA 349 trade names into the LLC name screen, so an active trade name blocks a later entity name that is not distinguishable from it. Two limits: RSA 349:11 preserves common-law rights acquired in good faith, and RSA 304-C:32, VIII lets the owner of a registered trade name form an LLC under that same name.
- Where to search existing names
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Registered trade names appear in the Secretary of State's QuickStart business name search.
one record, verified 2026-08-06 · RSA 349:1
What does it take to register a foreign LLC in New Hampshire?
Registering an LLC formed elsewhere is its own filing in New Hampshire. The registration costs $100. That price belongs to a separate filing event, so it enters no cost total on this site.
- Registration fee
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$100
Flat $100.00 statutory filing fee for an application for registration as a foreign limited liability company (RSA 304-C:191, II(h)); RSA 304-C:175 names the application and the Secretary of State as the filing office.
- The official form
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Application for Registration as a Foreign Limited Liability Company (RSA 304-C:175)
- Filed with
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New Hampshire Secretary of State
- After registration
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File an annual report with the Secretary of State between January 1 and April 1 each year (RSA 304-C:194) and maintain a registered office and registered agent for service of process in New Hampshire (RSA 304-C:177, IV).
one record, verified 2026-08-08
The same fee for every other jurisdiction sits on one page: foreign qualification fees for every jurisdiction.
Who can be the registered agent in New Hampshire?
Who may serve as an LLC's registered agent is its own rule in New Hampshire. New Hampshire lets a natural person serve, so no commercial agent is required. The LLC itself may also hold the seat.
- An individual as the agent
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Allowed
in the state's words An individual who resides in this state and whose residential or business office is identical with the registered office
- The LLC as its own agent
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Allowed
- A mailbox service as the address
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not read at this pin
- Address rule
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A registered office that may be the same as any of its places of business; and ... That after the change or changes are made, the street addresses of its registered office and the business office of its registered agent will be identical.
one record, verified 2026-08-10
The same four answers for every other jurisdiction sit on one page: registered agent rules for every jurisdiction.
What happens if you don't file the New Hampshire annual report?
A missed report has its own record in New Hampshire: the penalty, the dissolution clock, and the way back. The penalty is a single flat figure.
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Late filing penalty
$50
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Administrative dissolution
after 24 months of delinquency
The first stage the state publishes, in its own unit: after this interval the state may dissolve the LLC by administrative action.
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Reinstatement
$135
as the record reads A $135 application for reinstatement, available for three years after the effective date of dissolution and requiring a Department of Revenue Administration certificate if it arrives more than 120 days after the dissolution notice; after the three years it becomes a late reinstatement at $500.
one record, verified 2026-08-11
The same three answers for every other jurisdiction sit on one page: late fees and reinstatement for every jurisdiction.
Where do these figures come from?
Every figure on this sheet renders from the pinned dataset snapshot, and each card links the page its own figure came from. This list collects those pages in one place, with the duplicates removed and the agency named.
- Formation and annual report figures https://www.sos.nh.gov/corporations-0/forms-and-fees/limited-liability-companies
- Recurring tax: New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/V/77-E/77-E-1.htm
- Expedited service and processing time https://quickstart.sos.nh.gov/online
- Naming statute https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/XXVIII/304-C/304-C-32.htm
- Foreign LLC registration https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/XXVIII/304-C/304-C-191.htm
- Who may be the registered agent https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/XXVIII/304-C/304-C-36.htm
- Annual report late fee https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/XXVIII/304-C/304-C-mrg.htm
- Anonymous LLC statute https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/XXVIII/304-C/304-C-31.htm
- DBA filing https://www.sos.nh.gov/corporations-0/forms-and-fees/trade-names
- New Hampshire Department of State Corporation Division https://www.sos.nh.gov/corporations-0
- Business entity search https://quickstart.sos.nh.gov/online/BusinessInquire
The rule behind every figure here, and what a card does when one cannot be verified, sits on how a figure gets verified.