Is "Dash Project" the same as The Darkcoin Foundation? Or is it the for-profit start-up for which you were recruiting the month before launching (what's now called) Dash?
Is it using funding from the instamine?
Core Team Budget
In September and October we received the core-team budget, which was 1176 DASH each month. This was then paid out in two separate payments for the September and October core-team budget. Septembers payments were miscalculated, so we paid out the rest of the remaining September budget in October.
The core team compensation is meant purely as a token of appreciation for the work being done within the project, not as a means to work purely on Dash. In the future we expect this to eventually change as the project matures and our budget is enough to support those maintaining the project.
Theres two types of classes of membership within the core team presently, those that are paid a fixed fee, which is generally for writing, translating or community outreach roles. The second type of role is for software development, marketing, administration and automation.
Are these people considered by "Dash Project" to be employees or contractors or interns or paid volunteers or what?
How should they report the income on their taxes? Write it off as charity?