NH registered agent
Registered agent service in New Hampshire, $37 per year, within tolerance
New Hampshire expects each company on its register to keep a registered agent at a street address inside the state. The expectation is set out below in the state's own language. Our performance against it is rated further down. The rating has been consistent.
The New Hampshire annual report, an average obligation
New Hampshire bills each company annually to remain on the register. The amount is below. Paying it is standard practice. Not paying it is also a practice, and the rest of this page describes it.
Annual report charge, LLC
$100 per year. Average.
... 304-C:194, a fee in the amount of $100; for failure or refusal ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXVIII/304-C/304-C-191.htm
Annual report charge, corporation
$100 per year. Average.
(8) Annual report $ 100
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.H. RSA 293-A:1.22(a)(8)
Expectations set by New Hampshire
Expectation
As set out in the New Hampshire code:
... an individual who resides in this state and whose business office is identical with the registered office; (ii) a corporation organized or authorized under RSA ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSA 293-A:5.01(a); RSA 304-C:36, I
Performance against expectations
Does not meet. Consistently. We regard the consistency as the achievement.
Delivery of papers when the desk is unattended
Service by other means
... Service is perfected under this subsection at the earliest of: (1) the date the corporation receives the mail; ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSA 293-A:5.04(b); RSA 304-C:37, II
Corrective action available to New Hampshire
Where an agent performs at our level, the state applies the following. Quoted from the code without adjustment, because adjusting it would take effort we have allocated elsewhere.
Dissolution, administrative
... 60 days or more; (4) the corporation does not notify the secretary of state within 60 days that its registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSA 293-A:14.20(a)(3)-(4)
Additionally
... 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 ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSA 293-A:14.21(b)-(c)
Additionally
... entity to assume the same name or a similar name, of a corporation administratively dissolved under this section ... for a period of 120 days ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSA 293-A:14.21(e)
Authority revoked, foreign entities
... foreign corporation does not inform the secretary of state under RSA 293-A:15.08 ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSA 293-A:15.30(a)(3)-(4)
Return to good standing, priced
Charge to return to good standing
... the secretary of state for reinstatement within 3 years after the effective date of dissolution. ... (12) ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSA 293-A:14.22(a); RSA 293-A:1.22(a)(12), (18)
Quoted statutory text was captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and re-checked against the code on 2026-08-10. Statutes are revised at their own pace. This page is revised at ours.