New Hampshire Certificate of Authority / Wyoming LLCs
Wyoming LLC seeking New Hampshire authority: agent, statement and total
A Wyoming LLC pays $100 for New Hampshire authority on Form FLLC-1 alongside Wyoming's $60 yearly minimum, a combined $160 in the first year. New Hampshire attaches no Wyoming certificate to its form, and Wyoming will print one for nothing if you want it for your files.
Two states, two yearly obligations
| Topic | Wyoming | New Hampshire |
|---|---|---|
| Money each year | $60 minimum | $100 report |
| Certificate | Free on request | None attached |
| Cost to enter | Already formed | $100 |
| Agent | A Wyoming agent | A New Hampshire resident |
What the signer is vouching for
The signature stands behind a statement that the LLC is current at home. For a Wyoming LLC that means the annual report is filed, so look at it first.
The second agent
Your Wyoming agent covers Wyoming. New Hampshire needs a resident with a street address.
Filling in the form
Home state: Wyoming. Formation date: from the Wyoming record. Business: a brief description of the New Hampshire work. Agent: a resident. Signer: someone with authority under Wyoming law.
Running total
The form is $100, or $102 online. Add Wyoming's $60 minimum and the year comes to $160. A Delaware LLC would owe $500 for the same year. Our fee, $199, is on top.
Case: a lakeside rental in Wolfeboro
A Wyoming LLC that owns a cottage in Wolfeboro and rents it by the week is doing more than owning property without more. It applies for authority before the first rental season.
Case: a duplex in Berlin
A Wyoming LLC buys a duplex in Berlin to rent out. Renting goes beyond plain ownership, so it applies before the first tenant, names a resident agent, signs the form and pays $100.
Case: a holding company
A Wyoming LLC that only controls an operating company in New Hampshire is not doing business solely for that reason. The operating company registers or forms here.
Case: a remote salesperson
A Wyoming LLC whose salesperson lives in Keene and visits customers across the state is in a grey area. The list excludes orders accepted outside the state, but a salesperson who negotiates and closes sales locally may be doing more, and a New Hampshire lawyer should look at the facts.
Privacy
The yearly report in New Hampshire identifies the managers or one member, plus the registered and principal offices.
Wyoming law stays in charge
Under the statute, Wyoming law governs the LLC's management and its members' liability. Your Wyoming operating agreement controls how the company is run.
Your first year
In year one the LLC pays the New Hampshire fee and keeps its Wyoming minimum current. The first New Hampshire report follows in a later January-to-April window, for $100.
The New Hampshire report for a Wyoming LLC
The first New Hampshire report belongs to the year after the calendar year in which the LLC registered, unless it registered between December 1 and April 1, in which case no report is due that year. Each report is $100, delivered between January 1 and April 1 each year, and it lists 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 report that comes in late carries $50 on top.
Amendments and a new agent
If the Wyoming LLC changes its name or its home state, the New Hampshire application is amended on Form FLLC-2 for $35. Replacing the New Hampshire agent is a Form 10 statement for $15. A Wyoming professional LLC applies on Form FPLLC-1 for $100.
If the Wyoming LLC leaves
Leaving takes Form FLLC-3 for $35 and a Revenue Administration statement for $30, which is $65 together. Until the cancellation is accepted, the reports and the agent stay in place, since 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 can each lead to revocation.
If the Wyoming LLC already worked here
An LLC that did business here before it applied is billed for each year or part of a year of that work, measured by a registered LLC's fees with penalties added, and it may not start a lawsuit in New Hampshire until it registers and pays. Applying promptly keeps that period short.
Wyoming corporations
A Wyoming corporation uses Form 40 for $100. See the corporation form page.
Exiting later
Leaving New Hampshire takes Form FLLC-3 plus a tax statement, $65 between them; Wyoming's own report carries on. See the cancellation page.
A calendar for a Wyoming LLC
Keep the Wyoming date and the New Hampshire January-to-April window in one calendar from then on.
Wyoming LLC to New Hampshire authority
Check Wyoming standing
File the Wyoming report if it is late.
Pick the agent
A resident with a street address.
Complete Form FLLC-1
Wyoming named as the home state.
Sign and submit
$100 to the Secretary of State.
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.
Wyoming LLC questions
Does the filing include a Wyoming certificate?
No; a statement on the form stands in for it.
Does the Wyoming agent cover New Hampshire?
No. An LLC needs a resident agent here.
Is a holding company exempt?
Not solely for controlling an operating company here.
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
- Wyoming Secretary of State, Business Division fee schedule
- RSA 304-C:175, registration of a foreign LLC
- RSA 304-C:177, names, registered office and agent
- RSA 304-C:174, activities that are not doing business
- RSA 304-C:194, annual reports to the Secretary of State
- RSA 304-C:173, law governing foreign LLCs
- RSA 77-A:18, certifications for withdrawal and good standing
- RSA 304-C:183, grounds for revocation
- RSA 304-C:180, effect of not registering
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