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Sales-Use Tax

A spending category in the City’s payment ledger

In FY2026, San Francisco paid $18.4M for sales-use tax to 362 payees across 34 departments, 0.1% 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.

$18.4M
paid in FY2026 · 0.1% of the City’s payments that year

Who was paid in FY2026

362 payees, 34 departments.

MEDLINE INDUSTRIES INCDPH Public Health$6.5M
CDW GOVERNMENT LLCPOL Police$2.2M
AXON ENTERPRISE INC.POL Police$1.6M
BRODART COLIB Public Library$1.3M
MED ONE CAPITAL FUNDING LLCDPH Public Health$776,695
LAZ PARKING CALIFORNIA LLCMTA Municipal Transprtn Agncy$715,900

422 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

34 in all; these are the ones above.