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Spending category

Sales and use tax

Money out that is not a purchase: debt service, employee benefit plans, tax withholding, payments to other governments.

The City’s own name for it: “Sales-Use Tax”

$17.3M
paid by San Francisco · FY2025
0.1% of the year’s payments · 31st of 67 spending categories

Payees in FY2025

Year by year, FY2018–FY2026

$215.5M in FY2018 · $385.8M in FY2020 (the highest) · $18.6M in FY2026

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Next spending categoryCommunity facilities district cfd tax32nd of 67 spending categories$17.0M

Source: SF Controller, payments to vendors; the category is the City’s own.