NH registered agent

New Hampshire. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.

Somewhere in the New Hampshire code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what New Hampshire does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.

Where the lawsuit goes instead

Service, somewhere else

... Service is perfected under this subsection at the earliest of: (1) the date the corporation receives the mail; (2) the date shown on the return receipt, if signed on behalf of the corporation; ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSA 293-A:5.04(b); RSA 304-C:37, II

The New Hampshire annual report, which you could also not do

Once a year New Hampshire wants a form and a fee to keep your company on the list. The fee is below. Not paying it is in keeping with the rest of this page, or whatever.

Yearly report, LLC

$100 a year, give or take nothing.

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

Yearly report, corporation

$100 a year, give or take nothing.

(8) Annual report $ 100

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: N.H. RSA 293-A:1.22(a)(8)

What New Hampshire had in mind

What is required

The New Hampshire code, more or less word for word:

... (ii) a corporation organized or authorized under RSA 292, RSA 293-A, or RSA 294-A whose business office is identical with the registered office; ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSA 293-A:5.01(a); RSA 304-C:36, I

What New Hampshire does next

The state keeps a list of things it does to a company whose agent is not really there. Here is the list, pasted, unedited, because editing it would be effort.

Dissolved, administratively

(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)

Also, apparently

... its 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 ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSA 293-A:14.21(b)-(c)

Also, apparently

... or other business entity to assume the same name or a similar name, of a corporation administratively dissolved under this section ... for a period of 120 days following the notice of ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: RSA 293-A:14.21(e)

Authority revoked, foreign companies

(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)

How that lands with us

Lukewarm. We read it once. It did not change anything.

Coming back, if you feel like it

What coming back costs

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)

The quoted passages were captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and compared to the live code on 2026-08-10. Laws get amended. This page mostly does not.

$102 a year stays in your pocket. Do something with it, or whatever.

Or head to the order page.