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 registered agent, who may be: (i) an individual who resides in this state and ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSA 293-A:5.01(a); RSA 304-C:36, I
Service of process in our absence
Substituted service
... addressed to the secretary of the corporation at its principal office. Service is perfected under this subsection at ...
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
... this state for 60 days or more; (4) the corporation does not notify the secretary of state within 60 days that its registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSA 293-A:14.20(a)(3)-(4)
Further
... corporate existence but may not carry on any business except that necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs under RSA 293-A:14.05 and notify claimants ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSA 293-A:14.21(b)-(c)
Further
... or other business entity to assume the same name or a similar name, of a corporation administratively dissolved under this ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSA 293-A:14.21(e)
Revocation of foreign authority
... (4) the foreign corporation does not inform the secretary of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSA 293-A:15.30(a)(3)-(4)
Restoration
Fee upon restoration
... apply to the secretary of state for reinstatement within 3 years after the effective ...
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.
... report under RSA 304-C:194, a fee in the amount of $100; for failure or refusal to file an annual report or pay the filing fee on or before April 1 of any year, an additional late filing fee in ...
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.