NH registered agent

Registered agent service in New Hampshire. $24 a year. Yes.

Every New Hampshire company must appoint a registered agent at a street address in the state. What follows is the statute, quoted where it matters, and our position on it, which is brief.

The statutory requirement in New Hampshire

Requirement

The New Hampshire code provides:

(a) Each corporation must continuously maintain in this state: (1) a registered office that may be the same as any of its places of business; ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSA 293-A:5.01(a); RSA 304-C:36, I

Service of process in our absence

Substituted service

... Mail, as evidenced by the postmark, if mailed postpaid and correctly addressed.

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSA 293-A:5.04(b); RSA 304-C:37, II

Enforcement in New Hampshire

The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.

Administrative dissolution by the state

(3) the corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for 60 days or more; ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSA 293-A:14.20(a)(3)-(4)

Further

... on any business except that necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under RSA 293-A:14.05 and notify claimants under RSA 293-A:14.06 and RSA 293-A:14.07.

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSA 293-A:14.21(b)-(c)

Further

... name, of a corporation administratively dissolved under this section ... for a period of 120 days following the notice of administrative dissolution without the written consent of such corporation.

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSA 293-A:14.21(e)

Revocation of foreign authority

(3) the foreign corporation is without a registered agent or registered office in this state for 60 days or more; ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSA 293-A:15.30(a)(3)-(4)

Restoration

Fee upon restoration

A corporation administratively dissolved under RSA 293-A:14.21 may apply to the secretary of state for reinstatement within 3 years after the effective date of dissolution. ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSA 293-A:14.22(a); RSA 293-A:1.22(a)(12), (18)

The New Hampshire annual report, which you may also decline

New Hampshire levies an annual charge to keep a company in good standing. The amount is below. Declining it is consistent with everything else on this page.

Annual report, limited liability company

$100 per annum.

Upon receipt for filing of an annual report under RSA 304-C:194, a fee in the amount of $100; ...

Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXVIII/304-C/304-C-191.htm

Annual report, corporation

$100 per annum.

(8) Annual report $ 100

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.H. RSA 293-A:1.22(a)(8)

Our position

We decline. At this price you may have expected otherwise.

Statutory text captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01, verified against the code on 2026-08-10. Statutes are amended. This page is not.

$105 a year remains in your account. We consider that generous.

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