Hiring in-house developers vs. outsourcing

Apart from your legal and task implications you should ask yourself whether you have the infrastructure and organization in place to outsource some of the work to developers on-line. Are you organized well enough to determine what work can be done remotely? Do you have the infrastructure to distribute the code base on-line and track and verify the contribution of the on-line developers? Only if both questions are anwered with YES you should consider the legal and tax implications of outsourcing the work. If one or both questions are a NO, don't even consider outsourcing, because you are introducing risks to the quality and legal status of your software.