Design Brief: The “your tax extension has been accepted by the IRS” email is a celebration of procrastination, but also a condemnation of procrastination. The journey is not over—it has only just begun. The clipart should reflect this.

Make it festive, but violent (nails? knives?) Needs vaguely phallic elements (“you are fucking yourself”) Allude to “burning money” without being burning money (element of fire?) Obviously there should be an image of a fat stack of tax forms to remind recipient, “you have accomplished nothing” Anthropomorphization of tax forms??? (smile? smirk? frowny face?) Soothing color palette (“see you soon”)

Joel Stein did his taxes four times (whatever, Mike Dang did his three), and shares what he made and what he paid: •$399,101 in income (money earned for doing stuff) •$19,073 in dividends (money paid out to shareholders) •$1,312 in capital gains (money from increase in value of something you own, like stock or property or whatever) •$11,902 in refunds (which must be money from state returns that he wrote off last year? This seems to be some complicated rich person thing) For a grand total of: $431,388 He paid $127,826 in taxes and got a refund $469. In related news, Joel Stein is a rich person.