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National Insurance Contribution Changes

30/03/2010

On April 1st 2011, the current Governments scheduled increases in National Insurance Contributions (NIC) come into effect, giving another good reason to bring in a service instead of hiring an employee. buy:time’s flexible PA services provide perfect outsourced administration to companies and a private PA to the personal lives of busy individuals.

Labelled as a “tax on jobs”, these proposed NIC increases would affect both employees and employers making it more expensive to take on staff and employees losing more from their pay packets. A typical worker earning about £25,000 a year will pay around £200 extra a year in NIC from next April, as employee contributions rise to 12%.

This is however, only the tip of the iceberg. The front end costs of recruitment and the risks associated with it, cause many new businesses to put off taking on a new person for as long as possible. A part time PA, when you need her, allows you to focus on your success. This state of the art, flexible approach avoids the needs to invest time and money in recruitment, agency fees and training. Furthermore, if it doesn’t work out and the personality fit is just not right you avoid employment law problems, simply switching you PA with another from the buy:time pool.

Many start ups do not require full time administrative support but desperately need an extra pair of hands either on a regular basis, to handle invoicing and office administration or to handle specific one off tasks such as product launches, research projects or business travel.

With no annual tie in, monthly subscription or minimum usage you can access very highly skilled, carefully selected and trained executive PAs when you need them. With hourly tariffs as low as £29 plus VAT you can use your PA for as much or as little as you require each week. You will always get the same PA who can work from your office, home office or remotely. Your PA will get to know you, your business and as this is not a temporary fix, your PA is highly motivated to deliver the best service possible over a long period of time.

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