Updated August 10, 2026. Quick answer. Forming an LLC in New Hampshire costs $100 (certificate of formation) to file, and an ongoing report requirement ($100 annually, due between January 1 and April 1; $50 additional late fee after April 1). Five-year total: At least $600 over five years — one or more components (commonly the franchise/minimum tax) is unverified, so treat this as a floor, not a total.
What it actually costs
| Item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Formation filing fee | $100 (certificate of formation) |
| Annual/biennial report | $100 annually, due between January 1 and April 1; $50 additional late fee after April 1 |
| Franchise / minimum tax | not verified |
| Publication requirement | No newspaper publication requirement was found. |
Five-year cost of ownership: At least $600 over five years — one or more components (commonly the franchise/minimum tax) is unverified, so treat this as a floor, not a total. Publication cost is excluded from this figure — it’s county-driven where it applies, not state-driven, so a single number would be wrong for most filers.
The trap worth knowing before you file
Read from the merged full text of RSA ch. 304-C on the General Court’s official site. CAUTION FOR FUTURE RUNS: the individual-section URL pattern is unreliable here – https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/XXVIII/304-C/304-C-181.htm returns ‘Service of Process on Registered Foreign Limited Liability Companies’, not a fee section; the caption of what comes back must be read. AGENCY-VS-STATUTE COMPARISON NOT POSSIBLE: the NH SOS fee page 403’d, so the statute’s amounts stand uncorroborated by the agency’s own schedule.
Source
RSA 304-C:191, II(c),(f),(h); RSA 304-C:194, I-III. Read 2026-08-06 from statute. Formation-service sites were not used as a source for this figure.
If the LLC already exists somewhere else
Everything above prices forming a new New Hampshire LLC. A company that already exists in another state does not have to be dissolved and re-formed: New Hampshire takes it in as the same legal entity by the route its own code captions domestication, RSA 304-C:205, I, and New Hampshire does not publish that filing as a single fee, so this page gives no number for it — it is in any case separate from the formation costs above. Going the other way, a New Hampshire LLC may leave for another US state under RSA 304-C:205, II; RSA 304-C:208. Either way the move needs both ends to allow it — the state being left as well as the state being joined — which is where most published advice goes wrong.
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