Refunds Payable
A spending category in the City’s payment ledger
In FY2026, San Francisco paid $283.4M for refunds payable to 22 payees across 9 departments, 1.7% 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.
$283.4M
paid in FY2026 · 1.7% of the City’s payments that year
Who was paid in FY2026
22 payees, 9 departments.
Single Payment Payees$281.5M
CA dept of Tax & Fee Admin (BOE)$986,699Single Payment Payees$288,168
ALAMEDA COUNTY$270,078
BROADWAY SANSOME ASSOCIATES LP$122,453
CARTER-GOUGH & COMPANY INC$67,520
21 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
9 in all; these are the ones above.