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The ordinance extends a program that waives certain first-year fees for businesses until June 30, 2023, and increases the eligibility criteria, allowing businesses with gross receipts up to $5 million to qualify. It also broadens the types of businesses covered, removes the ground floor location requirement, and updates procedures for fee waivers and challenges.

Ordinance amending the program established in Ordinance No. 143-21 waiving certain first-year permit, license, and business registration fees for certain businesses, retroactive to November 1, 2021, to 1) extend the program through June 30, 2023; 2) increase the gross receipts permissible for a business to qualify for the tax and fee waiver from $2,000,000 to $5,000,000; 3) remove the requirement that the business be located on the ground floor; (4) expand the business types covered by the waiver from commercial businesses in certain Planning Code categories to all commercial businesses; 5) extend the period for refunds to the later of one year from the date of payment or June 30, 2023; 6) revise the procedures for challenging Tax Collector determinations that a business improperly claimed a waiver under this Ordinance; 7) increase the gross receipts above which the waiver would be retroactively revoked from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 in the calendar year of, or in any calendar year during the three full calendar years following, the date the business commenced business within San Francisco or opened a new business location for commercial use; and 8) make other administrative and reporting changes, as defined herein.

Introduced: Sep 13, 2022
Final action: Nov 17, 2022
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How it got here

Related / predecessor legislation
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How they voted

PASSED ON FIRST READING
Board of Supervisors · Nov 1, 2022Pass
5-0
RECOMMENDED
Budget and Finance Committee · Oct 26, 2022Pass
1-0
AMENDED, AN AMENDMENT OF THE WHOLE BEARING NEW TITLE
Budget and Finance Committee · Oct 19, 2022Pass
1-0
CONTINUED AS AMENDED
Budget and Finance Committee · Oct 19, 2022Pass
1-0

Legislative journey

PresidentSep 13, 2022
ASSIGNED UNDER 30 DAY RULE
Clerk of the BoardSep 19, 2022
REFERRED TO DEPARTMENT
Small Business CommissionOct 13, 2022
·RESPONSE RECEIVED
Budget and Finance CommitteeOct 19, 2022 – Oct 26, 2022
CONTINUED AS AMENDEDPass
AMENDED, AN AMENDMENT OF THE WHOLE BEARING NEW TITLEPass
RECOMMENDEDPass
Board of SupervisorsNov 1, 2022 – Nov 8, 2022
PASSED ON FIRST READINGPass
FINALLY PASSEDPass
MayorNov 17, 2022
APPROVED
Clerk of the BoardNov 18, 2022
·TRANSMITTED