Updated August 7, 2026. Quick answer: every figure Clear Money Guide holds about Idaho, 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 Idaho
These are the figures where Idaho differs most from the rest of the country — selected by counting how many jurisdictions share each value, not by editorial preference.
- Return deadline: 21 days if no time is fixed by agreement; in any event no later than 30 days after surrender of the premises — the only jurisdiction of the 51 we have data for
- Formation fee: $100 online; $120 by paper ($100 + $20 manual-processing surcharge) — the only jurisdiction of the 48 we have data for
- Trigger: the due date of any premium falling due after the FIRST POLICY YEAR — the only jurisdiction of the 47 we have data for
- Free look days: 20 days — one of only 2 of 31
What dying costs here
- Small estate limit: 100000
- Small estate scope: personal_only
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: Idaho Code 51-114A (RULONA), added by SB 1111 (2019 Sess. Laws ch. 160 s4)
- Effective date: 2020-01-01
- Conditions: Notary must hold a standard Idaho commission then file an ‘Addition of Electronic or Remote Online Notary’ amendment via sosbiz.idaho.gov and select tamper-evident RON technology. The SOS does NOT vet vendors – the notary bears responsibility, guided by NASS standards; IDAPA 34.07.01 implements. …
- Association name: Idaho 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: Idaho Code § 41-4303(3) (Idaho Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act)
- Free look days: 20 days
- Trigger: delivery of the policy or annuity contract to the person to whom it is issued
- Refund basis: refund of the premium paid
- Grace period days: 30 days, or at the insurer’s option one month of not less than 30 days
- Coverage during grace: the policy continues in full force; the insurer may charge interest not exceeding 6% per annum for the days of grace elapsed; if a claim arises during grace, any premium due or overdue, together with interest and any deferred instalment of the annual premium, may be deducted from the policy proceeds
- Variations: 4 weeks for industrial life insurance policies whose premiums are payable more frequently than monthly (same section). Annuities: separate grace provision at Idaho Code 41-1918.
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: Earlier of the next regularly scheduled payday or 10 days after separation; 48 hours if the employee makes a written request
- Fired deadline: Earlier of the next regularly scheduled payday or 10 days after separation; 48 hours if the employee makes a written request
- Statute citation: Idaho Code 45-606, 45-607
- Has law: No
- Disclosure trigger: none
- Salary history ban: no
- Local ordinances: none identified
- Authority: statute and regulation
- 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
- Return deadline: 21 days if no time is fixed by agreement; in any event no later than 30 days after surrender of the premises
- Interest required: no
- Statute citation: Idaho Code 6-321
Source and full detail: security deposit law by state. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Starting a business here
- Formation fee: $100 online; $120 by paper ($100 + $20 manual-processing surcharge)
- Annual report: $0 — no fee
- Franchise tax: none found in the sources searched
- Publication requirement: none identified
- Expedite options: +$40 expedited (8 working hours); +$100 same-day
- Statute citation: Idaho Code §§ 30-21-213, 30-21-214
- Five year total: at least $100
Source and full detail: LLC cost by state. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Tax treatment here
- Has law: Yes
- Treatment: preferential
- Rate: 5.30% flat
- Preferential mechanism: deduction
- Tax year: 2026
- Statute citation: Idaho Code § 63-3024 (rate); Idaho Code § 63-3022H (capital gains deduction)
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, Idaho Money Statistics 2026. https://clearmoneyguide.com/state-money-statistics/idaho/. 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 43 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 Idaho financial adviser statistics and all 51 state money sheets.
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