So here's the thing. I'm a UK citizen but I have been living abroad for 20 years or so, the last time I worked in the UK was 1996.

I started a news/forum/blog site about 3 1/2 years ago, hosted and under the name of someone in the US. The site is now being moved to a new host and I have webdesigners working on my plans to rebuilt it.

The thing is, the politicians and powerful people where I live don't like the criticism and information that gets written on my site, it's focus is very much on the environment and local politics, so I have used several names to post under and managed to keep my identity behind a foggy screen of sorts.

The site is very popular and it is very time consuming, becoming a full time job really. I have people who want to advertise and I have people who want to make donations, to the site and to various local NGO's. I also have plans to have an online store too. The site needs income to pay those for the time they put into it, and we would also like to support local NGO's and launch our own advertising campaigns too in our local media. I don't think the turnover would be over $5000 per month, except maybe if big donations come in.

I don't yet know the best course to take, but what I am thinking about is starting a simple (one man) website management company in the UK and then putting the website under that company's management. I have ideas for several other sites I would like to set up or have been asked to, so those could also be put under the management company. OK, so I would be the owner of the company, but I would be able to claim I just manage it. The point is to make it difficult to pinpoint the true owner so I don't get some construction heavies knocking on my door at night.

The new site will be a much more open site with new writers and a broader field of subjects written about. As our local papers are not online, we scan and post stories from the print and our library now holds 13,000 or so. It is used by students, journalists, politicians and of course, bloggers.

Anyway. Does anyone here have any ideas or suggestions on what would be best for me? I would like it all to be legit, with an accounting company doing the books int he UK, paying the taxes, bills and salaries to writers and administrators.

Flipper