# Checkoff

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{{Short description|Bookkeeping mechanism}}
{{distinguish|Chekov (disambiguation)}}

A '''checkoff''' or '''check-off''' is a bookkeeping mechanism that provides for regular payment of an obligation such as [union dues](/source/union_dues).<ref>{{cite web | url = https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/automatic-check-off | title = automatic check-off | work = Cambridge Business English Dictionary | publisher = Cambridge University Press | date = n.d. | access-date = 29 February 2020}}</ref>  The same term is used to refer to a tax on sales of agricultural goods that finance a generic commodity marketing program; one example is the [commodity checkoff program](/source/commodity_checkoff_program)s mandated by the [United States Department of Agriculture](/source/United_States_Department_of_Agriculture) to promote sales of [milk](/source/Dairy_Management_Inc.), [beef](/source/Beef._It's_What's_For_Dinner), [soybeans](/source/Soybean_checkoff), or [sorghum](/source/Sorghum_bicolor). Some US states offer income tax checkoffs to contribute voluntarily to various state programs.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.taxadmin.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=210:check-off-programs-see-strong-growth---2003&catid=47:fta-publications | title = Check-off Programs See Strong Growth | publisher = Federation of Tax Administrators | date = 2003}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [Rand formula](/source/Rand_formula)
* [Presidential election campaign fund checkoff](/source/Presidential_election_campaign_fund_checkoff)

== References ==
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Category:Accounting terminology

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