*rubs hands together with glee*

That's right, folks. It's that time of year again. 40 days and counting until you're required to send your still-beating heart this year's tax return to the Internal Revenue Service. And it's also the time of year when Celli's Annual Taxfic Challenge returns. Spread the word!

The rules:

1) Taxes must be involved. Any kind of taxes. Individual, corporate, estate, gift, federal, state, sales, excise, property...anything you can think of to tie to the concept of taxation.
2) Required vocabulary: either the word accrual or the word withholding. Bonus points for both.
3) Any fandom, any classification, any pairing or lack thereof is welcome.
4) Aim for 500+ words, although I won't be wordcounting. Extra super super special bonus points, and possibly a cookie, for a fic that's precisely 1040 words long.

Can't find a premise, or need some loophole in the tax code explained to you? I'm here for the asking. Five years of tax experience should be good for something, and I can't think of a better something than promoting fic. *g*

Once you've posted it, email me or comment in a post with the link, and I'll do a big index post the morning (hahahahaha) the evening of April 16.

And for your reading pleasure:
The 2003 Taxfic Challenge
The 2004 Taxfic Challenge

P.S. If you're working on a Remix fic, for Pete's sake, finish that first! Or musesfool will come after me with the poky stick.
P.P.S. ...if anyone catches me working on this instead of a Remix fic, dopeslap me.