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Refunds Payable

A spending category in the City’s payment ledger

In FY2023, San Francisco paid $58.8M for refunds payable to 12 payees across 10 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.

$58.8M
paid in FY2023 · 0.4% of the City’s payments that year

Who was paid in FY2023

12 payees, 10 departments.

Single Payment PayeesTTX Treasurer-Tax Collector$55.1M
STATE OF CALIF STATE TREAS CASH MGT DIVCRT Superior Court$1.4MCA dept of Tax & Fee Admin (BOE)PUC Public Utilities Commsn$953,774
Single Payment PayeesAIR Airport Commission$631,569
Single Payment PayeesMYR Mayor$164,385
BROADWAY SANSOME ASSOCIATES LPMYR Mayor$122,715

11 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.