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Sales-Use Tax

A spending category in the City’s payment ledger

In FY2020, San Francisco paid $385.8M for sales-use tax to 1,960 payees across 51 departments, 3.1% of the year's payments. Source: SF Controller vendor payments (open data).

Not a purchaseCode 552115

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

$385.8M
paid in FY2020 · 3.1% of the City’s payments that year

Who was paid in FY2020

1,960 payees, 51 departments.

MEDLINE INDUSTRIES INCDPH Public Health$24.0MVORTECH INDUSTRIESMTA Municipal Transprtn Agncy$11.9M
FAM LLCDPH Public Health$10.4M
ALSTOM TRANSPORTATION INCMTA Municipal Transprtn Agncy$10.3MGOLDEN GATE PETROLEUMMTA Municipal Transprtn Agncy$9.3M
PRECISION MEDICAL PRODUCT INCDPH Public Health$7.4M

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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

51 in all; these are the ones above.

Source: SF Controller — Vendor Payments (Vouchers). The category is the City’s own accounting code; sorting the codes into purchases and the rest is ours. Payees are ranked from the data, not selected.

See also

The categories next to this one in FY2020, by amount paid.

Bond Interest-ExpenseSame kind of spending, FY2020$695.9MMedical-Health Plan ProvidersSame kind of spending, FY2020$479.9M230490CONFedIncomeTaxTaxUnIt1Same kind of spending, FY2020$471.9MOther Obligations-Agency FundSame kind of spending, FY2020$237.3M230490CONStateIncomeTaxTaxU1Same kind of spending, FY2020$193.5MWho gets paid by San FranciscoEvery vendor payment, by category and department