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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).

Ledger lineCode REF_PAY

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 PayeesTTX Treasurer-Tax Collector$281.5M
CA dept of Tax & Fee Admin (BOE)PUC Public Utilities Commsn$986,699
Single Payment PayeesAIR Airport Commission$288,168
ALAMEDA COUNTYPUC Public Utilities Commsn$270,078
BROADWAY SANSOME ASSOCIATES LPMYR Mayor$122,453
CARTER-GOUGH & COMPANY INCRNT Rent Arbitration Board$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.