Updated September 4, 2026. Quick answer: a dissolved New Hampshire corporation reinstates by filing Application for Reinstatement Following Administrative Dissolution (or, after 3 years, an Application for Late Reinstatement), filed with the New Hampshire Secretary of State under RSA 293-A:14.22 (Reinstatement Following Administrative Dissolution); RSA 293-A:14.22-a (Late Reinstatement); fee set in RSA 293-A:1.22(a)(12) and (a)(18); name requirement at RSA 293-A:4.01 for $135, but only within 3 years of dissolution.
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The filing, and what New Hampshire calls it
New Hampshire calls this ‘reinstatement following administrative dissolution,’ with a separate ‘late reinstatement’ track once more than 3 years have passed. It is triggered by administrative dissolution under RSA 293-A:14.21 (corporation failed to correct grounds for dissolution within 60 days of notice). The corporation applies to the Secretary of State stating the dissolution grounds no longer exist and that its name still complies with RSA 293-A:4.01; if the application is filed more than 120 days after the dissolution notice was mailed, a tax-compliance certificate from the Department of Revenue Administration is also required.
How long you have to reinstate
New Hampshire does not let a dissolved corporation reinstate forever. You have just 3 years from the dissolution or revocation date; miss it and the only path back is forming a new entity from scratch, losing the original formation date and history. Standard reinstatement must be applied for within 3 years after the effective date of administrative dissolution. After that, a corporation may still apply for ‘late reinstatement’ under RSA 293-A:14.22-a, but must show that reinstatement will materially benefit the corporation’s legal constituents and will not operate as a fraud on the public, file all unpaid annual report fees since dissolution, obtain tax and employment-security clearances, and publish notice in a newspaper (or on the Secretary of State’s website) in the county of its principal/registered office. (RSA 293-A:14.22(a); RSA 293-A:14.22-a)
What you must pay before it goes through
New Hampshire will not reinstate the corporation until every year it sat delinquent is paid for. A tax-compliance certificate from the NH Department of Revenue Administration is required whenever the application is filed more than 120 days after the dissolution notice was mailed. For late reinstatement specifically (after 3 years), the statute additionally requires payment of all unpaid annual report fees accrued since the dissolution date, plus a tax clearance certificate and an employment-security clearance from the Department of Employment Security. (RSA 293-A:14.22(a)(4); RSA 293-A:14.22-a)
Whether your name is still yours
Whether New Hampshire protects a dissolved corporation’s name against a new filer during the dissolved period was not independently confirmed this session; The reinstatement application must confirm the corporate name still satisfies RSA 293-A:4.01, which sets general distinguishability rules against currently active/authorized entities but does not explicitly state whether a dissolved corporation’s own name remains reserved to it or becomes available to others during dissolution, so mechanics are not confirmed with certainty.. (RSA 293-A:4.01)
What the filing costs
New Hampshire’s Application for Reinstatement Following Administrative Dissolution (or, after 3 years, an Application for Late Reinstatement), filed with the New Hampshire Secretary of State carries a $135 filing fee. $135 for standard reinstatement following administrative dissolution, confirmed directly from New Hampshire’s official statute site (fee schedule embedded in RSA 293-A:1.22(a)(12)). Late reinstatement (after the 3-year window) costs $500 under RSA 293-A:1.22(a)(18).
What this page does not answer
Reinstating the entity at the state level and squaring things up with the IRS are two separate processes. Late federal returns, penalty abatement requests, and reinstating a lapsed EIN’s associated accounts are governed by federal law, not by New Hampshire’s corporation statute, and this page does not source them. We have the state-filing answer at primary and the federal-cleanup answer not at all.
This page covers a for-profit business corporation. If you are reinstating an LLC in New Hampshire instead, the filing, fee and statute are different: see reinstating an LLC in New Hampshire.
Sources
Every citation on this page is statutory or the Secretary of State’s own official filing instructions. No formation service, no registered-agent marketing page and no aggregator is cited anywhere in this cluster as a source of law; those are the only publishers of the competing versions.
- RSA 293-A:14.22 – Reinstatement Following Administrative Dissolution: https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXVII/293-A/293-A-1422.htm
- RSA 293-A:14.22-a – Late Reinstatement: https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXVII/293-A/293-A-1422-a.htm
- RSA 293-A:1.22 – Fee schedule: https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXVII/293-A/293-A-122.htm
- RSA 293-A:4.01 – Corporate Name: https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/xxvii/293-a/293-a-401.htm