A-melding – Direct submission

Here you will find a step-by-step guide to directly submitting the a-melding.

See also the a-melding guide.

You can submit the a-melding directly on skatteetaten.no if you do not have a payroll system.

Use this a-melding to submit information about employment, salary, benefits, withholding tax deductions and attachment of earnings for your employees, as well as to submit information about employer's national insurance contributions.

This a-melding has the following limitations:

• only one a-melding per sub-entity
• cannot be used by public agencies

When you submit the a-melding directly, it is always the last a-melding you submitted for the month that applies for the sub-entity you are submitting the a-melding for. This means that when you correct errors or omissions, the new a-melding will replace the previous a-melding for the month.

Direct registration via skatteetaten.no does not replace the a-melding previously submitted from Altinn (A01) or from payroll systems. You can therefore not submit an a-melding directly from skatteetaten.no to correct errors or omissions in an a-melding submitted from Altinn or a payroll system.

To submit the a-melding, you need one of these roles in Altinn:

• Reporter/sender
• Accountant with signing rights
• Accountant without signing rights
• Accountant Salary
• Responsible auditor
• Assistant auditor
• Contact Person NUF

You will find information about Altinn roles on altinn.

Assignments that are performed in Norway or on the Norwegian shelf by a foreign company or a foreign self-employed person, must be registered in the Assignment and employee register. 

If you have paid salary, you must state this in the a-melding. You can read more about this in the a-melding guide.

The deadline for submitting the a-melding is the 5th of every month. If the 5th falls on a weekend or a holiday, the deadline is on the first following working day. 

Remember to report the status of employment relationships every month. You must report this even if you do not pay any salary.

Read more about deadlines and payments in the a-melding.

Every time you submit the a-melding, we carry out an automatic audit of it and you receive feedback.

The feedback gives you an overview of the information you have submitted and whether the a-melding contains errors you must correct. It also contains information about employer's national insurance contributions and withholding tax deductions, account numbers and KID numbers.

If you are obligated to submit the a-melding, but do not submit it or submit it with errors, you may have to pay an enforcement fine.

Errors or omissions in the information you submit in the a-melding may result in consequences for your employees. Their tax returns may contain errors or they may receive incorrect payments from NAV. It is therefore important that you submit correct information within the monthly deadline.

Remember to report the status of employment every month, even if you do not pay salary.