Hassle to write many cheques

I bought a commercial property to be used as my office. The property is under development. I have to write two cheuqes for each progress payment. one cheque for the developer and another cheque for GST.

To make matters worse, the lawyer for the developer wanted the cheques to be made out in full, to "The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation account no XXX-YYYY-YYY for ABC Company Ltd". There is no space in the cheque to write this long name and the amount in words. It is so easy to make a mistake.

If I make a mistake, which is quite likely to happen, you can be sure that the bank will return the cheque and ask for a new cheque to be written. This will take time and hassle and give the bank, lawyers and the developers the opportuntity to charge a hefty interest on late payment and other charges for the mistake.

Why should our bankers and lawyers make life so difficult for consumers? Are they trying to find the excuse to levy more charges?

Why should the GST be written in a separate cheque? This is one more reason why I strongly dislike GST, as it is creating a lot of unnecessary work and burden.


Tan Kin Lian