Sales-Use Tax
A spending category in the City’s payment ledger
In FY2019, San Francisco paid $319.5M for sales-use tax to 1,968 payees across 49 departments, 2.8% of the year's payments. Source: SF Controller vendor payments (open data).
Money out that is not a purchase: debt service, employee benefit plans, tax withholding, payments to other governments.
$319.5M
paid in FY2019 · 2.8% of the City’s payments that year
Who was paid in FY2019
1,968 payees, 49 departments.
Spent by year
From FY2018, when the City renumbered its chart of accounts.
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Tallest bar — FY2020: $385.8M. Bars are scaled to this category’s own peak year.
Departments in those payments
49 in all; these are the ones above.