The New Hampshire Annual Report: April 1, Every Year

New Hampshire is an every-year state. No biennial breaks, no anniversary-date math: your LLC's report lands in the same window each year, January 1 through April 1, with $100 attached. RSA 304-C:194 is the statute behind it. Here is the whole picture.

The Basics

• Due: April 1, every year
• Window opens: January 1
• Fee: $100 (a $2 electronic charge makes it $102 when you pay online)
• Late penalty: $50, for a $150 total
• Where: the Secretary of State's QuickStart portal
• Worst case: administrative dissolution after 2 straight missed years

Due Date for the New Hampshire Annual Report

April 1. Not postmarked-ish, not flexible. The window opens January 1 because the state wants your entity information as it stands on January 1 of the filing year.

First-year note: your first report comes due the year after you form. Form the LLC between December 1 and April 1 and the state skips you for that first cycle entirely.

The New Hampshire Annual Report Fee: $100

$100 is the state's charge. Pay it electronically and RSA 5:10-a tacks on a $2 handling fee, so the online total reads $102. That $2 is a payment surcharge, not a different filing fee.

Filing the Report, Step by Step

1. Start from the Secretary of State's annual report page and pull up your entity in QuickStart.
2. Check the listed information. Member-managed? At least one member has to appear. Manager-managed? At least one manager, with name, business address, and title.
3. Nothing changed since last year? Use the One Click Annual Report and skip the data entry.
4. Pay ($100, or $102 online) and save your receipt.

Prefer paper? There is no blank PDF sitting on the forms page. You still build the report in the portal, then print and mail it with payment.

The $50 Late Penalty (and the Two-Year Cliff)

File after April 1 and the state adds $50 under RSA 304-C:191. Annoying, survivable. The real problem is repetition: two consecutive missed years and RSA 304-C:136 lets the state administratively dissolve your LLC, with the clock checked within 60 days after the due date. Dissolved means no good standing, shaky contracts, and a reinstatement process nobody enjoys.

Free Registered Agent Change, If You Time It

Here is a money saver: the $15 fee for changing your registered agent disappears when the change rides along with your annual report. Do it inside the January-to-April window and the state charges nothing extra for the swap. Any other time of year, it is a separate $15 filing. More on our change-agent page.

What Goes in the Report

• Entity name and business ID
• Registered agent and registered office (physical NH street address; a PO box works only for the mailing address)
• Principal office address
• The manager or member listing
• Nature of business

No financials. No FEIN. Ten minutes if nothing changed.

Where We Fit

We are the registered agent, not the report filer. You still get two layers of protection for your $99/year:

1. Reminders before the window closes, so April 1 never ambushes you.
2. Same-day scans of anything the Secretary of State mails about your report status.

Taxes Are a Separate Lane

The Business Profits Tax and Business Enterprise Tax are their own obligations with their own filings. The annual report touches neither. Talk to a tax pro about whether they apply to you.

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