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Sales-Use Tax

A spending category in the City’s payment ledger

In FY2021, San Francisco paid $42.6M for sales-use tax to 965 payees across 46 departments, 0.3% 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.

$42.6M
paid in FY2021 · 0.3% of the City’s payments that year

Who was paid in FY2021

965 payees, 46 departments.

CONNECTIONDPH Public Health$4.6MMEDLINE INDUSTRIES INCDPH Public Health$4.6M
PIVOT INTERIORS INCDPH Public Health$1.3M
UNITED MEDCO INCDPH Public Health$1.1M
DIGITAL GADGETSDPH Public Health$1.1M
DRAEGER INCDPH Public Health$949,584

1,574 more not shown.

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

46 in all; these are the ones above.