New Hampshire requires none required on the Certificate of Formation itself (its Manager/Member Information section is optional), but at least one member or manager name is mandatory on the annual report due every April 1 on its public LLC filing. New Hampshire's formation filing can stay clean, but the mandatory annual report will name a member or manager the following year — so the Wyoming holding LLC needs to be seated in that role before the first April 1 deadline, not patched in afterward. See our Wyoming holding company guide and full list of anonymous LLC states for more.
Optional
Member/manager names on the Certificate of Formation
April 1
Annual report forces at least one name public
§ 304-C:126
Exclusive-remedy charging order (multi-member only)
$100
Certificate of Formation filing fee
New Hampshire is a low-tax favorite for business owners, but its privacy story has two distinct chapters. The Certificate of Formation includes an optional Manager/Member Information section — leave it blank and the initial filing discloses no owner. The following April 1, though, the annual report requires at least one member or manager name, and that filing is public. New Hampshire also taxes LLCs at the entity level through its Business Profits Tax and Business Enterprise Tax despite having no personal income tax, and its charging-order statute (RSA 304-C:126) protects multi-member LLCs far better than single-member ones. The combination is why a Wyoming holding LLC named as the member — seated in that role before the first annual report — is the practical way to get lasting privacy and stronger asset protection out of a New Hampshire entity.
New Hampshire's Certificate of Formation (Form LLC-1) includes a Manager/Member Information section, but filling it in is optional — the state's own form and instructions confirm a filer can leave it blank at formation. The disclosure that actually matters arrives the following year: New Hampshire's annual report requires at least one member's name if the LLC is member-managed, or at least one manager's name if it's manager-managed, and that report is public through the QuickStart system. So New Hampshire gives a one-year head start on privacy at formation, not lasting anonymity.
New Hampshire's Certificate of Formation lets you leave the Manager/Member Information section blank, so forming the LLC itself doesn't have to expose an owner. The exposure is scheduled, not immediate: the first annual report, due the following April 1, requires at least one member or manager name, and that filing is public. Naming a Wyoming holding LLC as that member or manager — rather than an individual — is what keeps a personal name from ever landing in New Hampshire's record. It's worth doing for asset-protection reasons too: New Hampshire's charging-order statute (RSA 304-C:126) is a genuine exclusive remedy for a multi-member LLC, but it carves out single-member LLCs, letting a court permit further remedies against a sole owner's interest if a charging order won't satisfy the judgment in a reasonable time. A Wyoming parent as the New Hampshire LLC's member sidesteps that single-member gap entirely.
Keeping a name off New Hampshire's annual report doesn't change federal law: beneficial owners of the New Hampshire LLC — and of any Wyoming holding LLC above it — must still be reported to FinCEN under the Corporate Transparency Act, which is not open to public search.
N.H. RSA 304-C:126 — exclusive remedy for multi-member LLCs; single-member LLCs lose that exclusivity if a court finds distributions won't satisfy the judgment in a reasonable time. RSA 304-C:126 protects a multi-member New Hampshire LLC well — the charging order is the sole and exclusive remedy, and execution against the membership interest is unavailable to a judgment creditor. For a single-member LLC, the same statute carves out an exception: if a creditor shows distributions won't satisfy the judgment within a reasonable time, the court may order an execution sale of the member's rights, and the buyer becomes the LLC member outright, not merely an assignee. This is a real, statute-based gap for a sole-owner New Hampshire LLC — one reason a Wyoming holding LLC, or a genuinely multi-member New Hampshire parent, is often used instead of a single-member New Hampshire entity as the protective layer.
New Hampshire has no personal income tax (its Interest & Dividends Tax was fully repealed for tax periods beginning on or after January 1, 2025) and no general sales tax, but it taxes LLCs at the entity level: the Business Profits Tax (roughly 7.5% of net business income above the gross-receipts threshold) and the Business Enterprise Tax (0.55% of enterprise value), with BET creditable against BPT. A $100 annual report is due every April 1, with a $50 late fee.
Note: Confirm the current Business Profits Tax rate and gross-receipts threshold directly with the NH Department of Revenue Administration before publishing an exact figure, since it has changed in recent years. Also confirm Form LLC-1's exact current field layout at sos.nh.gov, since this page's dataDiscrepancyNote turns on that field being optional rather than mandatory at formation.
Note: apps/LLA/data/states/llc-search/nh.ts states that New Hampshire's Certificate of Formation 'includes a built-in Manager/Member Information section, so names go on the public record from day one.' That overstates the formation-stage requirement: New Hampshire's actual Certificate of Formation (Form LLC-1) and the Secretary of State's own guidance treat that section as optional, not mandatory — a filer can leave it blank when forming the LLC, and third-party filing guides confirm the same. The mandatory disclosure instead begins with the first annual report (due April 1), which is what apps/LLA/data/states/anonymous-llc/nh.ts describes. Both sources agree New Hampshire is not a true privacy state; this page follows anonymous-llc/nh.ts's more precise two-stage account — formation optional, annual report mandatory — rather than llc-search/nh.ts's 'day one' framing, which should be corrected there.
Not at formation — the Certificate of Formation's Manager/Member Information section is optional, and a filer can leave it blank. But the annual report due every April 1 requires at least one member's name (member-managed) or manager's name (manager-managed), and that report is a public record.
Leave the Certificate of Formation's optional Manager/Member Information section blank, then name a Wyoming holding LLC — not yourself — as the member or manager before the first annual report comes due the following April 1. That keeps an individual's name from ever landing on New Hampshire's public record.
Strong for a multi-member LLC — RSA 304-C:126 makes the charging order the sole and exclusive remedy. It's meaningfully weaker for a single-member LLC, since the same statute lets a court permit an execution sale of the membership rights if distributions won't satisfy the judgment in a reasonable time.
Bottom line: New Hampshire's formation filing can start clean, but the annual report will name a member or manager the following year — so the Wyoming holding LLC has to be in that seat from day one, not added after the fact.