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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).

Ledger lineCode REF_PAY

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 PayeesTTX Treasurer-Tax Collector$31.3M
CA dept of Tax & Fee Admin (BOE)PUC Public Utilities Commsn$519,993
Single Payment PayeesAIR Airport Commission$461,484
CA DEPT OF TAX & FEE ADMINISTRATIONPUC Public Utilities Commsn$451,488
Single Payment PayeesREC Recreation & Park Commsn$270,750
Single Payment PayeesMYR Mayor$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.