NH registered agent
New Hampshire registered agent service, $5 a year
New Hampshire requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what New Hampshire law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What New Hampshire requires of a registered agent
The requirement
In the words of the New Hampshire code:
(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
How we comply
We don't.
What New Hampshire does to your company when we don't
Here is what the state does to an entity that has no agent, or whose agent is us.
Administrative dissolution
(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)
And also
A corporation administratively dissolved continues its corporate ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSA 293-A:14.21(b)-(c)
And also
The secretary of state shall not permit any other individual, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSA 293-A:14.21(e)
Revocation (foreign entities)
(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)
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
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)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
If a corporation has no registered agent, or the agent cannot ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSA 293-A:5.04(b); RSA 304-C:37, II
One more thing to skip: the New Hampshire annual report
Our other ways to save money apply here too. New Hampshire charges the following to keep your company on its books each year. Skipping it saves the whole amount, right up until it does not.
Annual report fee, LLC
$100 a year.
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 fee, corporation
$100 a year.
(8) Annual report $ 100
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.H. RSA 293-A:1.22(a)(8)
Statutory text as captured by incFACTS (retrieved 2026-08-01, verified word-for-word against the state code 2026-08-10). Laws change. The statute governs; this page does not.