The Accounts Office Reference Number (AORN) is required to file your payroll to HMRC every month if you will be paying yourself a salary from the business.
Your AORN will be in a format similar to 123PA00123456. It is 13 characters, where the first 3 characters are always numeric and the 4th character is always 'P'.
Sometimes it is extended to 17 characters to include ‘YYMM’ to show PAYE or NI payments that relate to a specific month and year.
HMRC typically post this to you within 30 days after your company registers for its PAYE scheme.
If you've registered for PAYE it will be on:
You can also find your Accounts Office Reference number by logging in to your HMRC account under the ‘My Business’ tab. Alternatively, you can contact HMRC directly and ask them for your Accounts Office Reference number which they will re-post to you.
If you've recently joined Mighty and had a previous accountant for your company, we'll contact them to request this for you.
You will need to your Accounts Office Reference when:
.svg){kind=icon}
