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You are ready to be a Lead VA and take on associates, but how can you protect yourself?

By Admin SVA | 22 March, 2024 |

Top tips to ensure you get the best experience of being a Lead VA and what you can do to protect yourself.

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Do I need to have a postal address on my website?

By Admin SVA | 5 October, 2023 |

Do I need to have a postal address on my website? I’ve been on a fact-finding mission to find out the real answer to this question

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Virtual Assistant Insurance

By Admin SVA | 12 May, 2023 |

Virtual Assistant Insurance Over the years we’ve done a variety of articles on why it is necessary for virtual assistants to have insurance in place if they are working with…

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Data Protection and the Virtual Assistant

By Admin SVA | 27 April, 2023 |

Data Protection is one of those areas where if you ask 10 different people “Do I need to be registered?” you’ll get 10 different answers.  So we wanted to clear…

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What counts as self employed?

By Admin SVA | 1 March, 2023 |

So we’ve had various members asking about this recently… and yup, HMRC takes a very dim view of what they called “hidden employment” – in other words, freelancers or contractors…

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Working as an offshore Virtual Assistant

By Admin SVA | 6 September, 2022 |

Working as an offshore Virtual Assistant: A helpful checklist for working with international clients and what to look out for.

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Namechange for HMRC MLR

By Admin SVA | 9 April, 2021 |

HMRC’s Anti Money Laundering Supervision (AMLS) team has changed its name to Economic Crime Supervision (ECS).  As part of continuing changes to the service, the anti money laundering supervision team (MLR) will now…

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UK lockdown leads to spike in cyber insurance uptake

By Admin SVA | 9 March, 2021 |

UK lockdown leads to spike in cyber insurance uptake: Figures collected by insurance broker PolicyBee show a large increase in sales of cyber insurance.

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IR35 for Virtual Assistants

By Admin SVA | 24 September, 2020 |

IR35 for virtual assistants – what does it mean? Essentially IR35 stems from highly paid IT execs forming a Limited Company to get paid via dividends instead of doing PAYE…

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Copyright – protecting your brand

By Caroline | 22 March, 2020 |

COPYRIGHT: I’ve been asked a few questions recently from VAs about how to protect your brand, website domains, copy which you’ve written etc. from plagiarisers. I thought I’d put down…

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