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Refunds Payable

A spending category in the City’s payment ledger

In FY2019, San Francisco paid $45.8M for refunds payable to 30 payees across 8 departments, 0.4% of the year's payments. Source: SF Controller vendor payments (open data).

Ledger lineCode REF_PAY

Balance-sheet and revenue lines that appear in the payments file without being a payment for anything.

$45.8M
paid in FY2019 · 0.4% of the City’s payments that year

Who was paid in FY2019

30 payees, 8 departments.

Single Payment PayeesTTX Treasurer-Tax Collector$41.0M
Single Payment PayeesAIR Airport Commission$3.1M
CA DEPT OF TAX & FEE ADMINISTRATIONPUC Public Utilities Commsn$521,686
CARTER-GOUGH & COMPANY INCRNT Rent Arbitration Board$174,255
Single Payment PayeesPRT Port$164,320
THE PRESIDIO TRUSTADM GSA - City Administrator$133,980

29 more not shown.

Spent by year

From FY2018, when the City renumbered its chart of accounts.

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Tallest bar — FY2026: $283.4M. Bars are scaled to this category’s own peak year.

Departments in those payments

8 in all; these are the ones above.