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The ordinance extends the current Gross Receipts Tax rates for certain businesses until December 31, 2024, and delays new tax rates until January 1, 2025. It also offers tax credits for new businesses opening in specific zip codes from 2023 to 2027, providing financial relief based on their taxable gross receipts or payroll expenses.

Ordinance amending the Business and Tax Regulations Code to extend through December 31, 2024, the Gross Receipts Tax rates in effect on January 1, 2022, for the business activities of retail trade, certain services, manufacturing, food services, accommodations, and arts, entertainment and recreation, and postpone to January 1, 2025, the imposition of the Gross Receipts Tax rates otherwise set to go into effect beginning January 1, 2023, for those business activities; and to provide for businesses that open a physical location in certain zip codes in the City on or after January 1, 2023, through December 31, 2027, and that did not have a physical location in the City for at least three years prior to that opening, an annual Gross Receipts Tax credit equal to 0.45% of the business’s San Francisco taxable gross receipts from one or more of the business activities of information, administrative and support services, financial services, insurance, and professional, scientific and technical services, for businesses not engaged in business in the City as an administrative office, or 0.7% of the taxable payroll expense of a business that engages in business in the City as an administrative office, for each of up to three tax years immediately following the tax year in which the business opened the physical location, but no later than the 2028 tax year, and not to exceed $1,000,000 per tax year.

Introduced: Mar 21, 2023
Final action: Jul 28, 2023
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How they voted

PASSED ON FIRST READING
Board of Supervisors Β· Jul 18, 2023Pass
5-0
RECOMMENDED
Budget and Appropriations Committee Β· Jul 12, 2023Pass
2-0 /1
AMENDED, AN AMENDMENT OF THE WHOLE BEARING NEW TITLE
Budget and Appropriations Committee Β· Jun 28, 2023Pass
3-0
CONTINUED AS AMENDED
Budget and Appropriations Committee Β· Jun 28, 2023Pass
3-0

Legislative journey

PresidentFeb 14, 2023 – Mar 21, 2023
β†’ASSIGNED UNDER 30 DAY RULE
β†’SUBSTITUTED AND ASSIGNED
Clerk of the BoardMar 29, 2023
β†’REFERRED TO DEPARTMENT
Budget and Appropriations CommitteeJun 28, 2023 – Jul 12, 2023
β†·CONTINUED AS AMENDEDPass
✎AMENDED, AN AMENDMENT OF THE WHOLE BEARING NEW TITLEPass
βœ“RECOMMENDEDPass
Board of SupervisorsJul 18, 2023 – Jul 25, 2023
βœ“PASSED ON FIRST READINGPass
βœ“FINALLY PASSEDPass
MayorJul 28, 2023
βœ“APPROVED