New Hampshire Certificate of Authority / Reports
The annual report for a New Hampshire certificate of authority, by the calendar
New Hampshire expects a yearly report from every entity holding its authority, filed from January 1 to April 1. The fee is $100 for an LLC and $100 for a foreign profit corporation, with $50 added after April 1.
Calendar at a glance
- January 1
- The window opens, and the facts reported must be current as of this day
- April 1
- Deadline; the late fee applies after it
- Sixty days later
- A missing report becomes a revocation ground
- Then sixty days
- Time to cure once written notice arrives
- Fee
- LLC $100; corporation $100
- LLC statute
- RSA 304-C:194
January: the window opens
Reports are delivered in the span between January 1 and April 1 each year, and what they say must be accurate as of January 1 of the year the report is due. That day, verify the agent, the principal office address and the list of managers.
What an LLC reports
An LLC gives the LLC name and home jurisdiction, the registered office and agent, the principal office, the names and business addresses of its managers or at least one member, and a brief description of the business. A corporation's report carries its officers and directors, which makes the corporate side more work to keep up.
How it is filed
Reports go through the QuickStart dashboard, and an entity with nothing new to say can use One Click. Paper needs a form requested first, and a mailed report is on time only if postmarked by April 1. Online, the LLC pays $100 plus $2, listed by the state as $102.
The first report
A new registrant files its first report in a later window than the registration year, with an exception for registrations around the new year. The exception hinges on exact dates, so we check when yours is due when we prepare your filing.
If the state sends it back
A report lacking required information comes back for correction. Fix it and deliver it within 30 days of the notice and it still counts as on time.
April 2: the late fee
Miss the deadline and the entity owes the late fee and must file to get back to good standing. At $50, a late LLC report totals $150 before the handling charge.
Two months overdue: revocation can start
Once a report is 60 days past due, the Secretary of State may open a revocation proceeding. Written notice goes out, the entity has 60 days to fix the ground, and then the Secretary may revoke by mailing notice to the principal office on file. The entity's right to do business ends on the date stated. Its agent's authority survives.
Coming back after revocation
Reinstatement is by form, with the fees that were owing. Past 120 days the entity also pays the yearly fees since, if it worked here, and files the Department of Revenue Administration's clean-tax statement. Appeal to superior court, within 30 days of service, is the other route.
Other roads to revocation
A late report is only one ground. Others on the statutory list: an annual report not delivered within 60 days after it is due, franchise taxes or penalties unpaid for 60 days after they are due, no registered agent or office for 60 days or more, a document signed with knowledge it was materially false, or a certificate from the home jurisdiction that the LLC has dissolved or disappeared in a merger.
Habits that prevent trouble
Tick the reminder box on the form, keep the agent current and put the January date in a calendar. The state says most registered businesses file online.
Our part
We can prepare the report for $199 when you order it, using the facts you supply.
A yearly routine
Diary an early-January date, check the facts as they stand on January 1, file in the first weeks and keep the confirmation. A report filed in January never meets the late fee,.
What a corporation adds
A foreign profit corporation's report is the same amount, but it also lists officers and directors.
Registered agent: first year included, then $149 a year
$199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.
Report questions
What is the deadline?
April 1, with the window opening January 1.
What does lateness cost?
$50 more.
When can revocation begin?
After the report is 60 days overdue, following notice and a 60 day cure period.
Our fee and New Hampshire's
The Secretary of State's fee is $100 for an LLC filing and $100 for a corporation filing. We show the state fee apart from our own. $199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.
Get my New Hampshire authority
NH$199
+ $100 state fee
- The right New Hampshire form for your entity, completed from your answers
- The agent and the signer tested against what the state requires
- Our New Hampshire agent and office, or an agent you pick yourself
- The approved record sent to you
- Renewal: after the first year, the agent service renews at $149 a year
Sources
- New Hampshire Secretary of State, LLC forms and fees
- New Hampshire Form FLLC-1, foreign LLC registration, and its instructions
- New Hampshire Secretary of State, domestic and foreign corporation forms and fees
- New Hampshire Secretary of State, nonprofit corporations and associations forms and fees
- New Hampshire QuickStart, annual report and annual fee schedule
- RSA 304-C:194, annual reports to the Secretary of State
- New Hampshire Secretary of State, annual report reminder notice
- RSA 304-C:183, grounds for revocation
- RSA 304-C:184, procedure and effect of revocation
- RSA 304-C:185, appeal from a revocation
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