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(Added by Ord. 18-98, App. 1/16/98; amended by Ord. 26-04, File No. 031990, App. 2/19/2004; Ord. 291-10, File No. 101099, App. 11/18/2010; Proposition E, App. 11/6/2012, Oper. 1/1/2014; Ord. 206-13, File No. 130784, App. 10/11/2013, Eff. 11/10/2013, Oper. 1/1/2014; Ord. 271-13, File No. 131031, App. 11/27/2013, Eff. 12/27/2013, Oper. 1/1/2014; Ord. 222-14
, File No. 140798, App. 11/7/2014, Eff. 12/7/2014; Ord. 152-15
, File No. 150625, App. 8/6/2015, Eff. 9/5/2015; Ord. 26-17, File No. 161264, App. 2/10/2017, Eff. 3/12/2017; Ord. 10-18, File No. 171133, App. 2/1/2018, Eff. 3/4/2018; Ord. 235-18, File No. 180753, App. 10/12/2018, Eff. 11/12/2018, Oper. 1/1/2019; Ord. 69-19, File No. 181110, App. 4/19/2019, Eff. 5/20/2019, Retro. 1/1/2019; Ord. 277-19, App. 11/27/2019, Eff. 12/28/2019, Oper. 1/1/2020; Ord. 207-20, File No. 200759, App. 10/9/2020, Eff. 11/9/2020; Proposition F, 11/3/2020, Eff. 12/29/2020, Oper. 1/1/2021; Ord. 88-21, File No. 210161, App. 7/2/2021, Eff. 8/2/2021; repealed by Ord. 152-21, File No. 210828, App. 9/29/2021, Eff. 10/30/2021)
(a) For good cause, the Tax Collector, in the Tax Collector’s discretion, may extend, for a period not to exceed 60 days, the time for filing any return, other than a Vacancy Tax (Article 29) or Empty Homes Tax (Article 29A) return, pursuant to this Article 6 or regulations prescribed by the Tax Collector. For taxes required to be deposited monthly, or for the Sugary Drinks Distributor Tax (Article 8), the Tax Collector may only extend the time for filing a return for a period not to exceed 30 days. As a condition of such extension, the person seeking the extension shall make a payment of not less than 100% of such person’s liability for such period.
(b) Failure to make the required 100% payment will result in the automatic denial of the person’s extension and the person being subject to the standard due dates in this Article 6, including any penalties, interest, fees, and other consequences of failing to file and pay by those due dates.
(c) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this Section 6.9-4, the Tax Collector may extend any time for filing any return or payment of tax or excuse penalties for any late filing or late payment by a period not to exceed 60 days if billing or other administrative duties of the Tax Collector cannot be performed in a timely manner.
(Added by Ord. 18-98, App. 1/16/98; amended by Ord. 26-04, File No. 031990, App. 2/19/2004; Ord. 291-10, File No. 101099, App. 11/18/2010; Ord. 206-13
, File No. 130784, App. 10/11/2013, Eff. 11/10/2013; Ord. 26-17, File No. 161264, App. 2/10/2017, Eff. 3/12/2017; Ord. 12-18, File No. 171155, App. 2/1/2018, Eff. 3/4/2018; Ord. 235-18, File No. 180753, App. 10/12/2018, Eff. 11/12/2018, Oper. 1/1/2019; Ord. 88-21, File No. 210161, App. 7/2/2021, Eff. 8/2/2021; Ord. 152-21, File No. 210828, App. 9/29/2021, Eff. 10/30/2021; Ord. 224-23, File No. 230898, App. 11/3/2023, Eff. 12/4/2023)
(Added by Ord. 18-98, App. 1/16/98; amended by Ord. 26-04, File No. 031990, App. 2/19/2004; Ord. 291-10, File No. 101099, App. 11/18/2010; Ord. 206-13
, File No. 130784, App. 10/11/2013, Eff. 11/10/2013; Ord. 271-13, File No. 131031, App. 11/27/2013, Eff. 12/27/2013, Oper. 1/1/2014; Ord. 12-18, File No. 171155, App. 2/1/2018, Eff. 3/4/2018; Ord. 235-18, File No. 180753, App. 10/12/2018, Eff. 11/12/2018, Oper. 1/1/2019; Ord. 69-19, File No. 181110, App. 4/19/2019, Eff. 5/20/2019, Retro. 1/1/2019; Ord. 277-19, App. 11/27/2019, Eff. 12/28/2019, Oper. 1/1/2020; Ord. 207-20, File No. 200759, App. 10/9/2020, Eff. 11/9/2020; Ord. 88-21, File No. 210161, App. 7/2/2021, Eff. 8/2/2021; repealed by Ord. 152-21, File No. 210828, App. 9/29/2021, Eff. 10/30/2021)
(a) Filing by Mail. Except as otherwise provided in this Section 6.9-6, taxpayers may file any return or other document with or make any payment to the Tax Collector by United States mail.
(b) Date of Postmark. The date of postmark shall be deemed the date of filing for any return or other document, or any payment, delivered to the Tax Collector by United States mail if:
(1) The postmark is made by the United States Postal Service;
(2) The postmark date falls within the prescribed period, or on or before the prescribed date, including any extension, for filing the return or other document, or for making the payment;
(3) The return or other document, or the payment, was, within that time, deposited in the mail in the United States in an envelope or other appropriate wrapper, postage prepaid and properly addressed to the Tax Collector; and
(4) The Tax Collector receives the return or other document, or the payment, as a result of the timely mailing.
The Tax Collector may provide by regulation for application of this rule to postmarks not made by the United States Postal Service.
(c) Registered and Certified Mailing. The registration of any return or other document, or payment, delivered to the Tax Collector by registered mail shall be prima facie evidence that the return or other document, or payment, was filed with the Tax Collector, and the date of registration shall be deemed the postmark date. The Tax Collector may provide by regulation for the application of this subsection to returns or other documents, or payments, delivered to the Tax Collector by certified mail.
(d) Exceptions. This Section shall not apply to:
(1) The filing of a document in, or the making of a payment to, any court;
(2) Currency or other medium of payment unless actually received and accounted for; or
(3) Returns or other documents, or payments, which are required under any provision of the Business and Tax Regulations Code or of the Tax Collector's regulations to be delivered or filed by any method other than by mailing.
(e) Private Delivery Services. References in this Section 6.9-6 to the United States mail and a postmark of the United States Postal Service shall include any designated delivery service and any date recorded or marked as described herein by any designated delivery service.
(1) A "designated delivery service" means any delivery service provided by a trade or business if such service is designated by the Tax Collector for purposes of this Section. The Tax Collector may designate a delivery service only if he or she determines that such service:
(A) Is available to the general public;
(B) Is at least as timely and reliable on a regular basis as the United States mail;
(C) Records electronically to its database, kept in the regular course of its business, or marks on the cover in which any item referred to in this Section is to be delivered or filed, the date on which such item was given to such trade or business for delivery; and
(D) Meets such other criteria as the Tax Collector may prescribe.
(2) The Tax Collector may provide a rule similar to the rule of subsection (e)(1) with respect to any service provided by a designated delivery service which is substantially equivalent to the United States registered or certified mail.
(a) Where a taxpayer owes payments for prior years, the Tax Collector may accept partial payments. The difference between the amount paid by the taxpayer and the total amount due shall be treated as a delinquent tax and shall be subject to penalties and interest on the unpaid balance pursuant to Section 6.17-1
or Section 6.17-1.1, as applicable.
(b) Unless the taxpayer specifies otherwise, the partial payments shall be applied to the oldest year’s deficiency, first to administrative collection costs, interest, penalties, and other costs and charges for that year, and the balance, if any, shall be applied to the taxes due for that year. Any remaining portion of the payment shall then be applied to the next oldest year’s deficiency in the same manner and order.
(c) The taxpayer may specify that the partial payment be applied to a tax year other than the oldest, but the order of payment between administrative collection costs, interest, penalties, other costs and charges, and taxes due shall remain the same.
Whenever the Tax Collector deems it necessary to ensure compliance with the Business and Tax Regulations Code, the Tax Collector may require any person subject thereto to deposit with the Tax Collector such security as the Tax Collector may determine. The amount of the security shall be fixed by the Tax Collector, but shall not be greater than twice the person’s estimated average liability for the period for which said person files returns, determined in such manner as the Tax Collector deems proper. The amount of the security may be increased or decreased by the Tax Collector subject to the limitations herein provided. The Tax Collector may sell the security at public auction if it becomes necessary to do so in order to recover any tax or any amount required to be collected and remitted to the City, including any interest or penalty due. Notice of the sale shall be served upon the person who deposited the security and upon the taxpayer, if different, personally or by mail; if by mail, service shall be made in the manner prescribed for service of a notice of a deficiency determination as set out in Section 6.11-2, and shall be addressed to the person at said person’s address as it appears in the records of the Tax Collector. Upon any sale, any surplus above the amounts due shall be returned to the person who deposited the security. The return of a cash security shall include interest at a rate equal to the annual fiscal year interest rate earned by the City and County of San Francisco’s “Pooled Interest Account” invested and managed by the Treasurer.
(Added by Ord. 18-98, App. 1/16/98; amended by Ord. 26-04, File No. 031990, App. 2/19/2004; Ord. 291-10, File No. 101099, App. 11/18/2010; Ord. 152-21, File No. 210828, App. 9/29/2021, Eff. 10/30/2021)
If any person is delinquent in the payment of the amount required to be paid by said person, or in the event a determination has been made against any person which remains unpaid, the Tax Collector may, not later than three years after the payment became delinquent, give notice thereof by mail or by personal service to any persons in the State of California having in their possession or under their control any credits or other personal property belonging to the delinquent person, or owing any debts to the delinquent person. After receiving such notice, the persons so notified shall, within five days of the receipt of the notice, advise the Tax Collector by sworn writing of all such credits, personal property, or debts. Further, the persons so notified shall neither transfer nor make any other disposition of the credits, other personal property, or debts in their possession or under their control at the time they receive the notice until the Tax Collector consents to a transfer or disposition or until 30 days elapse after the person has advised the Tax Collector in a sworn writing of all such credits, personal property, or debts. Unless otherwise required by law, if persons so notified transfer such assets in violation of the provisions of this Section 6.10-2, they shall become indebted to the Tax Collector for the value of the property transferred, or the amount owed to the City by the delinquent, whichever is less.
(Added by Ord. 18-98, App. 1/16/98; amended by Ord. 26-04, File No. 031990, App. 2/19/2004; Ord. 291-10, File No. 101099, App. 11/18/2010; Ord. 152-21, File No. 210828, App. 9/29/2021, Eff. 10/30/2021)
(a) (1) The Tax Collector may bring an action in the courts of this State, or any other state, or of the District of Columbia, or of the United States and its territories or possessions, or any other forum where permitted by law to recover in the name of the City any amount of taxes due and payable under the Business and Tax Regulations Code and remaining unpaid, together with penalties, interest, and costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees.
(2) In any action filed pursuant to this Section 6.10-3, the Complaint shall attach a certificate executed by the Tax Collector or the Tax Collector’s representative that contains the following information:
(A) the name of the operator, taxpayer, or other person determined to be liable for the tax;
(B) the description of the operator’s, taxpayer’s, or other person’s business or activity against which the tax has been assessed;
(C) the location and/or address of the business or activity;
(D) the amount of the tax, penalty, and interest remaining unpaid as of the last day of the month prior to the month in which the Complaint is filed; and
(E) the fact that the City has complied with all provisions of the Business and Tax Regulations Code in the computation and the levy of the tax, penalty, or interest.
(3) In prosecuting such actions, the Tax Collector shall be entitled to all of the provisional remedies provided by law. Any such action shall be commenced within three years from the date any amount of taxes became due and payable, or from the date the return is required to be filed or actually filed, whichever period expires later; except in the case of any deficiency determination pursuant to Sections 6.11-1 et seq. or 6.11-1.1 et seq., as applicable, 6.12-1 et seq., or 6.13-1 et seq., in which case any such action shall be commenced within three years after such determination became final. However, there shall be no limitation on the time in which such actions may be commenced in cases of fraud, intent to evade the Business and Tax Regulations Code, or failure to file a return.
(b) When the amount of any tax, penalty or interest which has become due and payable remains unpaid for 15 days, the Tax Collector may record a tax lien with the Assessor-Recorder, thereby creating a tax lien on all of the assessee's property and rights to property, including realty, personalty, or intangibles. The Tax Collector may record or file such tax lien in the office of the Recorder of any California county, with the California Secretary of State, and with any other California public entity that is otherwise authorized by law to record liens. The Tax Collector may record or file such tax liens in any other office of any other jurisdiction as permitted by law. The tax lien shall identify the Tax Collector as the lienor, and the amount of the lien. Simultaneously with the recording, a copy of the tax lien shall be mailed to or personally served upon the taxpayer or other person determined to be liable for the tax at said person's last known address based upon the information, contained in the Tax Collector records. The tax lien after recordation has the force, effect and priority of a judgment lien and continues for 10 years from the date of recording, unless sooner released or otherwise discharged. This remedy and any other remedies for collection of any taxes, together with all administrative collection costs, interest, penalties and other costs and charges, including reasonable attorneys' fees, are cumulative and may be pursued alternatively and consecutively as the Tax Collector determines.
(Added by Ord. 18-98, App. 1/16/98; amended by Ord. 26-04, File No. 031990, App. 2/19/2004; Ord. 291-10, File No. 101099, App. 11/18/2010; Ord. 5-13
, File No. 121064, App. 1/24/2013, Eff. 2/23/2013; Ord. 207-20, File No. 200759, App. 10/9/2020, Eff. 11/9/2020; Ord. 152-21, File No. 210828, App. 9/29/2021, Eff. 10/30/2021; Ord. 224-23, File No. 230898, App. 11/3/2023, Eff. 12/4/2023)
(a) If the Tax Collector determines that a taxpayer has failed to pay or has underpaid a tax, that an operator has failed to collect and remit all of a third-party tax, or that a person other than the taxpayer is jointly and severally liable for any unpaid or underpaid tax, including third-party taxes, the Tax Collector may compute and determine any tax deficiency upon the basis of the return or returns or upon the basis of any other information within the Tax Collector's possession or that may come into the Tax Collector's possession. One or more deficiency determinations of the amount due may be made for one or for more than one period.
(b) The amount of the determination, exclusive of penalties, shall bear interest at the rate of 1 percent per month, or fraction thereof, from the 15th day after the close of the month or the monthly period for third-party taxes, or from the last day of February following the close of the annual period, for which the amount or any portion thereof should have been remitted until the date of payment in full, or, in the case of stadium operator admission taxes, from the due dates of said tax as set forth in Article 11, Section 804.
(c) In making a determination, the Tax Collector may offset overpayments for a period or periods together with interest on the overpayments, against underpayments for another period or periods, against penalties, and against the interest on the underpayments. The interest on underpayments and overpayments shall be computed in the manner set forth in Section 6.17-1 for underpayments and in Section 6.15-2 for overpayments.
(d) This Section 6.11-1 shall apply as follows:
(1) to all returns and payments for tax periods ending and taxable events occurring on or before December 31, 2020, except as provided in subsections (d)(2) and (d)(3) of this Section 6.11-1;
(2) to all returns and payments for registration years ending on or before June 30, 2021 with respect to the registration fee imposed under Section 855 of Article 12; and
(3) to all returns and payments for fiscal years ending on or before June 30, 2021 with respect to fees, assessments, and other charges subject to this Article 6 that are imposed on a fiscal year basis.
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