New Hampshire LLC Annual Report: Due Date, Fee and Late Penalty

New Hampshire LLC annual report rules at a glance

State fees verified October 2026 and set by the state, not by us. Deadlines, penalties and dissolution rules are New Hampshire's, read from its statutes and the pages of the New Hampshire Secretary of State; the statutes are cited in the text.

How New Hampshire's annual report works

New Hampshire's annual report is filed with the Secretary of State through QuickStart between January 1 and April 1 each year; an account is required, and the One Click option files a no-change report in a few steps. The state fee is $100, plus a $2 charge for filing online.

The report confirms the principal office and mailing address, the registered agent and office, the names and addresses of the managers (or members if member-managed), and the nature of the business. New Hampshire does not treat the report as a change-of-agent filing; that is a separate statement.

Filing after April 1 adds a $50 late fee under RSA 304-C:191, so a late report is $150. The state accepts the late report through the year.

Who files it and what the form asks

Every New Hampshire LLC on the state's active record owes the annual report for each report year, whether or not it did any business; an LLC that has stopped trading still owes it until it files articles of dissolution. A member, manager or someone they authorize signs it, and in practice the owner, the registered agent or the company's accountant files it.

The form confirms what the state already holds: the principal office and mailing address, the registered agent and registered office, and the people who run the LLC, with the New Hampshire-specific fields described above. What matters is that anything that changed during the year is corrected here, because the state sends its notices, including the next year's reminder, to the addresses on the report.

Changing the registered agent is best treated as a separate filing in New Hampshire: the annual report confirms the agent on record, and the state's statement of change names the new one. Owners who switch agents usually file the change first so the report shows the right agent. We can make the switch for you, and the New Hampshire registered agent rules cover who may serve. Every state's change form and fee is in how to change a registered agent.

When the New Hampshire annual report is due

New Hampshire uses one date for every LLC: April 1, every year. The state starts accepting the report on January 1, so the filing window runs from then to the due date, and filing in the first weeks of it is the simplest way never to meet the penalty.

There is no grace period: the day after the due date the report is late. New Hampshire keeps accepting that year's report, with the penalty, through December 31 of the report year; after that the consequences below take over.

Your first annual report

The first annual report is due April 1 of the year after the LLC was formed: formed any time in 2026, first report by April 1, 2027. Nothing is owed in the formation year itself.

The state fee and the late penalty

The state fee is $100 a year. It is set by New Hampshire and published on the state's own schedule; anyone who files for you pays the same amount to the state, and the state fee is shown separately wherever the filing is sold.

Filed late, the report costs $50 more, $150 in state charges altogether. The penalty is New Hampshire's, owed to the New Hampshire Secretary of State, and it is charged whether the report is a day late or six months late.

If you missed the New Hampshire annual report

New Hampshire dissolves an LLC administratively only after two consecutive years in which the report was not filed or paid within 60 days of the due date. Reinstatement is $135 in state fees plus each missed $100 report and its $50 late fee, $435 at the two-year minimum, and the Department of Revenue Administration must certify the LLC's taxes if the reinstatement comes more than 120 days after the dissolution notice; after three years a late reinstatement costs $500.

The ladder is the same everywhere: a late fee where the state has one, then loss of good standing (which blocks a certificate of good standing and the loans, contracts and registrations that need one), then administrative dissolution or revocation, then reinstatement. Our guide to reinstating a dissolved LLC walks through the steps and the state fees in every state, and we file reinstatements. Until the LLC is dissolved, the cheapest fix is almost always to file the report now.

Before you file the New Hampshire annual report

The filing itself takes minutes once the details are to hand; most of the time lost on an annual report is spent hunting for them. Have ready:

• The LLC's New Hampshire file or entity number, as it appears on the articles or on the New Hampshire Secretary of State business search; the New Hampshire Secretary of State requires an online account tied to the record, so set that up before the deadline week.
• The registered agent's current name and New Hampshire street address; if the agent has changed, file the change first.
• The principal office and mailing address as they should read for the coming year.
• The names and addresses the New Hampshire form asks for (above), spelled as the state has them.
• A card for the $100 state fee, plus the late penalty if the due date has passed.
• The signer's name and capacity: member, manager or authorized person.

Save the state's confirmation when it arrives. It is the proof of filing a bank, a lender or a buyer will ask for, and the date on it is the date the state goes by.

How New Hampshire compares with its neighbors

New Hampshire's annual report is due April 1, with a state fee of $100. Next door:

• Maine: an annual report due June 1 ($85 state fee, $50 late penalty).
• Vermont: an annual report due the last day of the third month after the fiscal year end (March 31 for a calendar year) ($45 state fee, no late fee).
• Massachusetts: an annual report due the anniversary date of formation ($520 state fee, no late fee).

An LLC registered to do business in more than one of these states owes each state's report on each state's calendar; the formation state's filing never covers a foreign registration, and the due dates rarely line up.