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Costume Inspection Certificate

Form PRS-2 · Certificate of Costume Inspection

Before any trick-or-treating can begin, costumes must pass official inspection. The Parental Revenue Service's certificate confirms that your child's costume meets the highest standards of spookiness, sparkle and general excellence, with an award category, the Bureau seal and signature lines. Homemade costumes especially welcome.

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  • Certificate
  • One page, landscape

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Fills in the form at the Filing Desk. No account needed.

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  • Letter or A4

How filing worksOpen the Filing Desk

Exhibit A · Form PRS-2
The Bureau of WhimsyParental Revenue Service

Certificate of Costume Inspection

Let every porch, doorstep and doorbell know that

Maya

appeared before the Inspection Division dressed as something wonderfully spooky. The neighbours were impressed. The pumpkins were impressed. The Inspector was so impressed that the rating Exceptionally Spooky was stamped twice.

With all the rights, privileges and doorbell visits pertaining thereto.

Issued October 31, 2026 · Case No. PRS-2026-83700 · Form PRS-2
Candy Tax Commissioner
Commissioner of Candy Revenue
Parental Revenue Service
PARENTAL REVENUE SERVICE ★ OFFICIAL SEAL ★
Mortimer Pumpkinseed
Senior Costume Inspector
Parental Revenue Service
Scan to verify authenticity
INSPECTEDOCT 31 2026 · PRS DESKPARENTAL REVENUE SERVICE ★ SPOOK-WORTHY
Specimen filed for Maya, age 6. Yours carries your child’s name, its own case number and a working verification code. Scan this one with your phone to see the page your child will see.

When it’s called for

  • Halloween afternoon, just before heading out.
  • Costume parades at school, daycare or the library.
  • Halloween parties, with one certificate per guest.
  • Celebrating a homemade costume that took a great deal of cardboard.

How to file it

Start at the Filing Desk
4 steps
  1. 1Describe the costumeEnter your child's first name and what they're dressed as.
  2. 2Choose an awardLet the Bureau name a category, or personalise one, such as “Most Convincing Dinosaur”.
  3. 3Print the certificateIt prints landscape on Letter or A4, in colour or black and white.
  4. 4Conduct the inspectionWalk around the costume with a clipboard, nod gravely, then present the certificate.

Notes from the Liaison Desk

Memoranda

Small touches that make the paperwork land, collected from authorised grown-ups.

Tonight's bedtime story

All stories
Reading Room

The Parental Revenue Service has stories too. Read one after the costume inspection certificate arrives: each has a 3-minute version for tired nights.

Questions from grown-ups

Costume Inspection Certificate

Plain answers about this document, for the grown-ups doing the filing.

Q.1Can every child at a party get a costume certificate?

Yes. Make one per guest. Classic certificates are free, and each gets its own case number.

Q.2Do costumes have to be scary?

Not at all. The inspection celebrates every kind of costume: spooky, sparkly, silly or made entirely of boxes.

Q.3Can I print it in black and white?

Yes. The certificate is designed to look good on any home printer, in colour or black and white.

Often filed together

All Parental Revenue Service forms
Cross-references
  • Form PRS-1Free

    Halloween Candy Tax Assessment

    An official (and very fair) assessment of the Halloween haul — sharing deductions, a tax-free favourite and Parental Withholding.

    Official form
  • Form PRS-3Free

    Candy Exchange Receipt

    For families who trade extra Halloween candy for a toy or book overnight: an official receipt from the Bureau's own Candy Exchange Program.

    Receipt

From the Liaison Handbook

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Prints on Letter or A4 · Colour or black and white