Form an LLC · NH

How to form an LLC in New Hampshire

New Hampshire LLCs are formed by filing a Certificate of Formation with the New Hampshire Secretary of State, Corporation Division — the official filing fee is $100 (see the fee notes below). Corpus prepares and files it for $250 all-in, including your first year of registered-agent service.

Form your New Hampshire LLC

What New Hampshire requires

Formation document
Certificate of Formation verified 2026-09-24
Filing office
New Hampshire Secretary of State, Corporation Division verified 2026-09-24
New Hampshire filing fee for the Certificate of Formation
$100 Certificate of formation filing fee. verified 2026-09-30
  • Optional: $15 name reservation or transfer of reservation (optional). source
  • www.sos.nh.gov returned HTTP 403, so an electronic handling charge could not be re-verified. source
Online filing
Yes — You can file the Certificate of Formation online through the Secretary of State's QuickStart portal. verified 2026-09-24
Standard processing time
Not yet verified by Corpus — check with New Hampshire Secretary of State, Corporation Division
Expedited options
Not yet verified by Corpus — check with New Hampshire Secretary of State, Corporation Division
Name requirement
The name must contain “limited liability company,” “limited company,” “LLC,” or “L.L.C.” verified 2026-09-24
Registered agent
Required — A New Hampshire LLC must continuously maintain a registered agent and registered office. verified 2026-09-24
LLC statute
New Hampshire Limited Liability Company Act, RSA 304-C verified 2026-09-24

What you’ll need

The Corpus intake collects this information to prepare the filing. Some questions are asked only when they apply — for example, the management question is asked only when the company has more than one owner.

  • What do you want to name the company?
  • In a sentence, what will the business actually do?
  • Where should official mail go — street, city, state, ZIP?
  • What email should we use for this order?
  • Which industry code fits this business?
  • Besides you, will anyone else have authority to make decisions for the business?
  • Who owns this company?

New Hampshire asks nothing beyond the standard questions.

What it costs with Corpus

State fees (filing fee + the state's processing charges)
$102
Registered agent, year one
$100
Corpus service
$48
Total at checkout
$250

$102 = New Hampshire’s $100 in formation fees for an online filing + $2 of other state processing charges for the way Corpus files (expedite, card or online-portal fees).

Registered agent renews at $99/yr after the included first year — cancel anytime. Itemized pricing for every state is on the price grid; how Corpus compares to other formation services is on the comparison page.

After you form: staying in good standing

Annual report
Annual report — between January 1 and April 1; a late fee applies after April 1. verified 2026-09-30
Report fee
$100 verified 2026-09-30
  • Conditional: $50 late filing fee (only if the report or fee is not filed by April 1). source
Franchise or privilege tax
Only if the LLC exceeds the Business Profits Tax gross-income threshold or a Business Enterprise Tax receipts or tax-base threshold. verified 2026-09-30
  • Rates, caps, thresholds, apportionment and exemptions: see New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration; default LLCs owe these business taxes only when a statutory threshold is met. source · source 2

Comparing what registered-agent service costs after year one across providers? The comparison page publishes renewal prices.

Form it with your AI agent

You don’t have to do the intake here. Any agent that can open a link can run the whole thing — Corpus’s formation tools give it New Hampshire’s requirements and live price, it asks you the questions above, and it hands back a prefilled link you review and pay. Paste this into your assistant:

Form an LLC in New Hampshire for me with Corpus (corpuslaw.us). Use its formation tools to get New Hampshire's requirements and price, ask me what you need, and give me the prefilled link.

The guide is on /agents, the protocol reference is /docs/mcp, and the installable skill for this state is the New Hampshire SKILL.md.

Sources

Every verified fact above names where Corpus read it and the date it was last verified. Sources marked secondary are third-party write-ups used only where an official page did not publish the answer.

Corpus is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Fees and rules change — each verified fact above shows the date Corpus last verified it; anything marked “not yet verified” should be confirmed with the filing office.