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Refunds Payable

A spending category in the City’s payment ledger

In FY2021, San Francisco paid $29.0M for refunds payable to 10 payees across 9 departments, 0.2% 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.

$29.0M
paid in FY2021 · 0.2% of the City’s payments that year

Who was paid in FY2021

10 payees, 9 departments.

Single Payment PayeesTTX Treasurer-Tax Collector$26.6M
CA dept of Tax & Fee Admin (BOE)PUC Public Utilities Commsn$937,072
Single Payment PayeesAIR Airport Commission$522,700
CCDC SMALL SITES LLCMYR Mayor$427,920
CARTER-GOUGH & COMPANY INCRNT Rent Arbitration Board$130,563
BRIDGE HOUSING CORPMYR Mayor$100,000

9 more not shown.

Spent by year

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

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'27

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

Departments in those payments

9 in all; these are the ones above.