These plans "smooth out your expenses so you don't get a nasty surprise, " says Eric H.
But Labour says many people unaware of the move face a "nasty surprise".
"It's worse than we expected and the size of the contraction in consumer spending is a particularly nasty surprise, " said Unicredit economist Loredana Federico.
On a wider horizon, I also look forward to the nasty surprise that will hit some of the more complacent banks in their international-transfers business.
The home-office deduction is another nasty surprise awaiting the millions who joined the ranks of telecommuters and entrepreneurs who took deductions for business use of their residences.
Chief Executive Richard McGinn sprang a nasty surprise last month: In the December quarter net fell 30% below Wall Street expectations and 20% below a year ago.
This season Thailand's soldiers had a nasty surprise in store.
Meanwhile, aircraft-leasing companies that repossessed some of the nearly four dozen planes used by Kingfisher have found a nasty surprise: Most of the planes have been stripped of key parts.
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Investors in Caterpillar got a nasty surprise last Friday when the company revealed that it had uncovered massive fraud at a Chinese mining equipment firm that it bought last year.
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Iran's test flight came as a nasty surprise to both America and Israel, indicating that the Iranians were at least a year further forward with developing missiles than hitherto believed.
And Stephen Twigg MP, Labour's shadow education secretary, said the councillor made made "openly racist comments" and it was "no surprise people still think of the Conservatives as the nasty party".
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So to find the government crying national sovereignty about Chiapas is no surprise, especially if it has been up to some nasty things there that foreign meddlers might notice as it has.
But it will be no surprise if the foundation eventually adopts a softer line, if only to avoid nasty headlines like last week's.
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