Now a Silicon Valley venture capital firm is promising to cut checks to entrepreneurs interested in jumping on the fad.
Because businesses need to do boring and un-sexy stuff to stay in business: print invoices, create orders, cut checks, pay people, track time.
There are variations possible depending on exactly how checks are cut, and separate checks are usually a good idea.
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Your payroll service can cut the checks to your employees, withhold the taxes, transmit the taxes immediately to the IRS, and issue the Forms W-2.
Though Isgur didn't have check-writing authority, he simply sent a memo, which O'Quinn signed off on and then faxed to his accountants, who cut the checks.
The alternative would be to send physicians their payments at the reduced rate and then, should Congress ultimately fix the problem, ask physicians to bill CMS for the difference and then cut additional checks to cover the shortfall.
Cantor cut off salary checks four days after the attacks, effectively concluding that employees were dead even while families and rescue workers clung to hope.
But the about five million recipients who have yet to make the switch won't see their checks cut off if they don't meet the deadline, says Walt Henderson, a spokesman for the Treasury Department.
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And yet this is arguably the time to do so before (not after) the huge checks are cut.
Another foible relates to how settlement checks are cut.
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More recently, we've learned that a tremendous number of checks have been cut by USDA to farmers who are dead.
Also announced today were new limits on the amount early retirees can earn without seeing a cut in their Social Security checks.
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But it would not be as clear-cut as two extra game checks.
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The Social Security checks would still be cut but not income tax refunds.
The proposal to cut the need for Criminal Records Bureau checks for adults working under supervision with children is part of the red tape-cutting Protection of Freedoms Bill currently being pored over in the Lords.
If the tax cut is to have any economic impact this year, many analysts believe it is more likely to be a result of the rebate checks sent out for the larger cut in the lower bracket.
It's cut down on recipients who were "double-dipping, " or collecting welfare checks from multiple locations.
So, if outlays exceeded 20.6 percent of GDP, Social Security checks would shrink and doctors who treat the poor or the elderly would see their pay cut.
And if that happens if, in effect, the IRS writes the checks instead of HHS a big chunk of the subsidy would morph into a tax cut.
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Perhaps even worse, the flow of bonus checks has persuaded successive city governments that it's not necessary to diversify the economy or cut exorbitant costs.
Also, too many deals to preserve the status quo have been cut in boardrooms and government offices far from the eyes of the public and the market, with no checks on vested interests or political considerations.
Checks for guns and drugs had been "stopped", and "hundreds" of staff had been cut "and then at the last minute re-recruited", she alleged.
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