Refunds Payable
A spending category in the City’s payment ledger
In FY2020, San Francisco paid $34.1M for refunds payable to 23 payees across 10 departments, 0.3% of the year's payments. Source: SF Controller vendor payments (open data).
Balance-sheet and revenue lines that appear in the payments file without being a payment for anything.
$34.1M
paid in FY2020 · 0.3% of the City’s payments that year
Who was paid in FY2020
23 payees, 10 departments.
Single Payment Payees$31.3M
CA dept of Tax & Fee Admin (BOE)$519,993Single Payment Payees$461,484
CA DEPT OF TAX & FEE ADMINISTRATION$451,488
Single Payment Payees$270,750
Single Payment Payees$206,741
23 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
10 in all; these are the ones above.