Updated August 7, 2026. Quick answer: every figure Clear Money Guide holds about New Hampshire, on one page, each one copied from a dataset that cites its own statute or agency. Built for reporters on deadline — take any line, follow the link for the source.
What stands out about New Hampshire
These are the figures where New Hampshire differs most from the rest of the country — selected by counting how many jurisdictions share each value, not by editorial preference.
- Formation fee: $100 (certificate of formation) — the only jurisdiction of the 48 we have data for
- Trigger: any premium falling due after the first payment — the only jurisdiction of the 47 we have data for
- Deposit cap: greater of 1 month’s rent or $100 — the only jurisdiction of the 37 we have data for
- Has law: No — one of only 8 of 51
What dying costs here
- Small estate scope: unstated
Source and full detail: the cost-of-dying index. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Estate and property law status
- Authorized: yes
- Statute or act: RSA 456-B (Uniform Law on Notarial Acts), 6-a, enacted SB 291 (2022)
- Effective date: 2022-08-09
- Conditions: Full audio-video RON, not RIN-limited: the remote individual appears via live two-way audio-visual communication technology. Notary must register/notify the SOS and identify the platform before performing remote acts; maximum fee $25 per act; journal of all remote acts required.
- Association name: New Hampshire Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association
- Death benefit limit: $300,000
- Cash surrender limit: $100,000
- Annuity limit: $250,000
- Aggregate limit: $300,000
- Statute citation: N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 408-B:5
- Free look days: 10 days
- Trigger: receipt of the policy by the policyholder
- Extended windows: 30 days for replacement transactions; 10 days for preneed funeral policies; 10 days for deposit term life
- Refund basis: the policy is deemed void from the beginning and any premium paid on it is refunded
- Grace period days: 31 days
- Coverage during grace: the policy continues in force, but premiums in arrears plus accrued interest (at a rate not exceeding the policy loan rate) are deducted from any claim arising in the period; the insurer may also make the policyholder liable for a pro rata premium for the time in force during grace
- Variations: the grace-period provision does not apply to single premium contracts, or to flexible payment annuity contracts that do not default upon nonpayment of premium
Source and full detail: notary rules by state · guaranty association limits · life insurance free-look periods · life insurance grace periods. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Working and earning here
- Quit deadline: Next regular payday; but if the employee gave at least one full pay period’s notice, within 72 hours
- Fired deadline: Within 72 hours of discharge
- Statute citation: N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 275:44
- Has law: No
- Disclosure trigger: none
- Salary history ban: No
- Wage replacement: 60% of the employee’s average weekly wage, with the wage base capped at the Social Security taxable wage maximum
- Max weeks family: 6
- Funding: Commercial insurance premiums, not a payroll tax. The state pays the full premium for permanent state employees at no cost to them; other employers buy coverage voluntarily and may make it non-contributory, contributory or partially contributory; individuals whose employer does not sponsor covera…
- Benefits effective date: 2023-01-01 (coverage available for purchase)
- Mandatory: No
- Contested: No
Source and full detail: final paycheck laws by state · pay transparency laws by state · paid family leave by state · the convenience-of-the-employer rule. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Renting here
- Deposit cap: greater of 1 month’s rent or $100
- Return deadline: 30 days
- Interest required: conditional
- Statute citation: N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§ 540-A:6, 540-A:7, 540-A:8
Source and full detail: security deposit law by state. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Starting a business here
- Formation fee: $100 (certificate of formation)
- Annual report: $100 annually, due between January 1 and April 1; $50 additional late fee after April 1
- Franchise tax: not verified
- Publication requirement: none found
- Statute citation: RSA 304-C:191, II(c),(f),(h); RSA 304-C:194, I-III
- Five year total: at least $600
Source and full detail: LLC cost by state. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Tax treatment here
- Has law: No
- Treatment: none
- Preferential mechanism: none
- Tax year: 2025
- Statute citation: N.H. RSA ch. 77 (repealed by 2021 N.H. Laws 91:189, II, eff. Jan. 1, 2025)
Source and full detail: capital gains tax by state. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
For journalists: how to cite this
Clear Money Guide, New Hampshire Money Statistics 2026. https://clearmoneyguide.com/state-money-statistics/new-hampshire/. Every figure on this page is copied from a Clear Money Guide dataset that states its own primary source and the date it was read — follow the section links for the statute or agency behind any number. Free to reuse with attribution under CC BY 4.0.
What this sheet does and does not contain
This sheet aggregates; it does not research. Every figure is copied from the owning page linked in each section, and a figure we do not own is simply absent — not estimated, not inferred from a neighbouring state. That is why sheets differ in length: this one states 45 figures, and a state where we hold less will show fewer. A short sheet means we have less, not that the state has less.
Statutory law changes. Each linked owner page carries the date its figures were read; check there before relying on anything here. See also New Hampshire financial adviser statistics and all 51 state money sheets.
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