Why New Hampshire — Free Staters are Taking Over the State

This state is small enough to change. People move here, have kids, build, and show up at town meeting on purpose. That’s the point. Not a comment section in a place you’ll never win.

• Be free. Carry without a permit. Homeschool. Start a business. Towns still run a lot of their own lives.
• Make babies. Raise them here. Homeschooling is ordinary, not a workaround.
• Build stuff. A company, a house, a club. Civilization doesn’t hold itself together.
• Live around people who came for the same reasons. In a town of a few thousand, you matter.
• Get involved. LPNH and Free State Party (a private club, not official Free State Project) are where a lot of that crowd already is. Events.

• There’s no state income tax, no sales tax, and no capital gains tax.
• Towns still run a lot of their own business (town meeting, local roads, local schools).
• Constitutional carry means you can carry a gun without a permit.
• NH also does not require auto liability insurance just to drive. You’re still on the hook for damage you cause. The first 60 days list has the official FAQ.
• Homeschooling is legal and ordinary.
• Violent crime is rare. FBI 2024: 110.1 per 100,000, second-lowest of the 50 states. The rates.
• It’s a small state. You can cross it in an afternoon.

• There’s no state income tax or sales tax, so towns pay for schools and roads with property tax. That’s the yearly bill.
• On a $500,000 house, $10 per thousand of value is about $5,000 a year. A town at $14 is about $7,000. Published rates run from $1.18 to $23.70, or about $590 to $11,850 on that same house.
• The map uses the DRA full-value rate, the state’s apples-to-apples property tax number so towns can be compared. Your actual bill uses the town’s own assessment.
• Click a town on the map for its number.
• Seventeen places have no rate. The state lists them as N/A (unincorporated grants and locations with no town government raising a local tax).

• No general state sales tax. A shop does not add a retail sales tax on ordinary goods. Meals, rooms, and tobacco are separate.
• No personal income tax on wages. The old tax on interest and dividends is gone for periods beginning on or after January 1, 2025.
• Business Profits Tax (BPT) is 7.5% of taxable business profits, for periods ending on or after December 31, 2023. File if gross business income from all activities is more than $109,000, for periods beginning on or after January 1, 2025.
• Business Enterprise Tax (BET) is 0.55% of pay, interest, and dividends the business pays out (the enterprise value tax base), for periods ending on or after December 31, 2022. File if gross receipts or that tax base is more than $298,000, for periods beginning on or after January 1, 2025. BET you pay is a credit against BPT.
• A small shop under those thresholds often does not file. That is not “no taxes on business.” Official rates: NH DRA — business taxes.
• Compare taxes is a household estimate — wages, property, sales, gains. It does not include BPT or BET.

• Winters are real. Most jobs are in the south, around Manchester. A lot of people commute in from a smaller town instead of buying in the city.
• Your American ancestors crossed oceans, froze, starved, and still wrestled this continent into submission. A New Hampshire winter is weather, not a tragedy. They would expect you to be equal to a little snow.
• Some towns officially don’t have zoning. Some are tightly regulated. Read the town, not the slogan.