Originally posted by youngguy
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A PSC is a tax device (you can argue the reasons behind it, however, you want and whether its tax saving or not), but that's not what being attacked here. What is being attacked here are specialist freelance resources i.e. skilled workers the public sector organisation does not and probably cannot employ themselves for whatever reason.
Using the term psc removes that fundamental fact from IPSE's entire argument and removes the actual problem and risk to the public sector from their answers to those questions...
So yes it is a mistake to use it. I would have used 2.2 to emphasis what we actually are picked a far more suitable term (Freelance Expert, Professional Freelance worker whatever someone thought was best) and substituted that where-ever PSC appeared in the document. The final impact would then have been far clearer and far more obvious....
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