Help with setting up a copywriters agency

[ciarac]

Hello to all,

My name is Ciara, I am Irish, living in Barcelona and set up and run Website copywriter, content for your website - www.website-copy-writer.com.
My hopes and plans for the business are to turn my one-girl copywriting show into a copywriting agency. I plan to outsource my copywriting work to India, where English skills are high but pay demands are low (without trying to screw anyone over, obviously) and take a cut for each article myself. I will then have time free to work on traffic and content building for the website itself instead of spending my time actually writing for clients.

I don't plan on passing any work as my own, unless it is my own, and will be quite honest on my website, i.e. something along the lines of "this business is run by Ciara carrruthers who works with a team of writers", etc...
I.e. I'll make it quite clear that it is not I that is doing the writing.

Legally, I'm a bit lost, as I will be outsourcing to other freelancers, and not employing anyone, I don't really know if I should set up as a sole proprietor or as a LLC. The fact that I'm in Spain makes it harder because all these things are in SPanish, which I speak but of course, it makes it harder.
Is it necessary to set up a business IN the country you are living or can I, living in Spain, set up in the UK for example. I don't plan on living in Spain for more than one further year.

Any help that anyone can give me would be much appreciated.

Ciara.

[Brutha]

Is it necessary to set up a business IN the country you are living or can I, living in Spain, set up in the UK for example. I don't plan on living in Spain for more than one further year.

You should check with an accountant for that.
If I remember right you should be able to set up a business in every EU country without many problems as a west-EU citizen (it's like setting up a business in Texas when you live in Washington as an US citizen).

I don't know how difficult it would be for you to set up a business in an non-EU country.