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Welcome, everybody, to yet another edition of California Society Municipal Finance Officers webinar series. My name is Craig Lesterner. I am your host for today. I'm going to give it just a minute or so as we get people on boarded into the session. I'm not sure how many people have registered, but I'm sure it's a good amount as we usually get a good crowd for these sorts of topics. But today we're talking about sales tax 101. And so the question might come up, why do you need to know what's what about sales taxes? And why is there 101 classified it?

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because they're fundamental to what we do here in government,

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not just in California, all.

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That's what we're going to be talking about today.

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But elsewhere, where I live in Chicago,

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one of my first jobs out of college

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was learning the laws and the legal applications

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of sales tax limitations and how they apply to things

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like restaurants and how they don't apply for food

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taken for consumption at home.

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And all sorts of differentials like that

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that make it just as complex as it needs

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to be to give you a headache.

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And to require other people to kind of help

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us understand these sorts of things. So as we get people sort of in session, which I'm saying we've

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got about 200 people now, so I think that's a pretty good number to move on with. So without further ado,

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please participate with poll questions today. We have poll questions today as we do almost every time.

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If you can't take at least 75% of them or the math is because we have six of them,

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five of the poll questions you will not be eligible for CPU credits. So if you need CPU credits,

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you need to have told us before hand that you want to see any credits. One and two, you have to

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take poll questions. And of course, if you don't need to see any credits, take the poll questions

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too because they're funny and interesting and they'll keep you informed as to what's going on

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representation. The session is being recorded and we'll be available for review and download at

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that website, which I'm not going to read, but it's time to see some of those websites. I think you

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just go in and look for Agendas. You'll find it. But without further ado, again, I'd like to introduce

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our speakers for today both Bobby Young and Tim Kirby. Of course it's running in front of

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my bios. Bobby Young has 26 years of local government experiences director of client services

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at HDL. He leads the team in developing reporting advancements and efficiencies for clients

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along with providing meaningful presentations regarding both sales tax and transaction tax

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districts. Tim is the director of finance for the city of Sunnyvale California and Tim has been

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with Sunnyville for 24 years working in both the Department of Finance and Public Works and

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varying capacities. Tim manages the city's finance department now including his court functions

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of budget, accounting, purchasing, utility billing, revenue collection and paywall. And without

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further a view of you, I do. I will hand it over to Bobby and give me a second Bobby while I get

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you control. You should have control. Yep. Thanks so much Greg. I'm just going to move it one.

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Perfect. Welcome, everybody. Thanks. Thanks so much for joining us today. It's

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glad great to see so many participants joining Tim and myself to kind of walk

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through some of the basics of sales tax with sales tax 101. You can see on

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the screen here kind of what we're going to be going through there. A little bit of

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history, allocations and data. How we do auditing and a little bit of forecasting.

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Then Tim's I'll turn it over to Tim and he'll he'll go deeper into specifically

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Sunnyvale and how they used sales tax data and really go deep and and put it to put it to use to

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especially when it comes to businesses and business retention.

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Let's see. Okay. There we go.

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So let's start with the history. Go back in time, lay in some some foundation groundwork here.

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You'll see 1933 was when the first state sales tax got adopted. If you flash back in your history

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books. You can kind of realize what was going on there in 1933, post great depression here in

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the state. It's really starting to figure out how to generate revenue to get the economy going

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and structure built. As you kind of go down, I'm going to use some of my slides here in the

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presentation and say goodness, we're recording this and it'll be available, is meant to be a little bit

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of a more of a history or resource guide.

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There we go.

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So I won't be going in deep on everything.

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It'll be here for you if you want to flash back and come back into

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remind yourself.

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But one of the items middle of the screen here,

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County's hint hint when it, as Craig mentioned, there will be quizzes that go along. So 1962 was when our local Bradley Burns got enacted and that's really the portion that we focus on the most as you see, you kind of scroll down 1969 as when counties were authorized to go to the voters for transactions use tax over rise. Then here, as we kind of get closer to more modern history. Scrolling down, we had a couple

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A couple of few years there of state sales tax increases to the base rate, 1993.

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Prop 172 is imposed.

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And as many of you know, and I'll talk about it in a couple of slides, prop 172 ends up

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being another piece of the sales tax funding sources, especially when it comes to public

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safety.

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2004 is when cities finally got authorized to seek voter approval for transactions use

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tax overrides, thereby not needing legislative approval to do so. Just go right to the voters.

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So 2004 was such a big year for us here in the state. And then most recently, 2019,

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probably the, you know, aside from a lot of our history when it comes to sales tax,

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AV-147 and the implementation of the Wayfair decision became so crucial when it came to how sales

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tax gets allocated locally. So just some points in time to lay it in. And the first poll question,

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Tim, I'll let you let you run with this. Yeah. And before I read it, I just want to throw out

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there for the attendees that Craig has told us we have to hit at least an 86% response rate. So

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please, please jump in there and respond. So in what year was the local Bradley Burns 1% sales

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tax rate enacted for all cities and counties. And now I'll play the Jeopardy music but I don't have it.

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That's that poll should have jumped up on your screen there. Yeah. It says host and

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panelists can't vote. So who's the link this morning and ready to get to that 86%.

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All right. Just a couple more.

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Feel free. Oh, looks like you got it. Yeah. You got the chat wonderful. And folks, so you know, I'll be monitoring the chat.

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If you have questions along the way, go ahead. You can also put them in the chat and we'll try to weave them in throughout the presentation.

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So I'm going to move us through. Oh, it looks like it popped up. Oh, 79% said 1962.

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Good job there. But good job. We paid our 86% mark. Right. Yeah. Absolutely. So 1933 was the first time

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the state's portion was enacted.

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1971, I don't think we had any. Maybe that was the birth year for

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a lot of attendees. So it's a it's a popular year.

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And 2003 almost 2004 was when cities got the

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authorization to go to the voters for an extra tax on top of the normal 1% Bradley Burns.

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Okay. So let's keep moving through. Let me see if this is going to pop up the fly-ins.

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there we go. Base sales tax rate as you see on the screen total 7.25% that's

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the statewide base. Now as we know in many populated areas populated counties

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and it's become extremely popular for about the last decade we've had local

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agencies and counties add on top of that additional tax rates to get more

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funding, but as far as the base rate goes, the 1% Bradley burns. That's what every city

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is entitled to as part of the base rate. Then we also have the Countywide Transportation

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Fund. A quarter cent, many refer to it as the local transportation fund or the LTF. A lot

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of counties have their own transportation agency, whether it be Orange County, L.A., Riverside,

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San Bernardino or San Mateo, Santa Clara, many into the North, that's where the .25%

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transportation funding lands. And then as I made mention during the, during the history,

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we've got prop 172 and being half-sent part of the base rate. We're not going to take a deep dive

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here, just know that prop 172 gets allocated to counties first, then inevitably down to cities

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and at different proportional rates, but it is a part of majority of cities funding them.

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And the restrictions on the 172 portion. So at a high level, pretty much just public safety and public safety is broadly defined whether it be police fire. We've also, I've had conversations with folks that use it for lifeguards, if you've got a public beach area. Again, especially if those lifeguards are housed or managed within your police department. So it's, and then it's

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can be salaries, can be equipment, kind of a broad stroke there on what it could be spent on,

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but the underlying focus is public safety.

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And as a kickoff there, a little bit of a reminder,

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at the CSMFO conference in February, down here in Southern California and in Anaheim, I'll be doing

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a presentation on specifically on Prop 1172, kind of a Prop 1172 101, with folks from county and cities

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to kind of go deeper on that remark, on that side.

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So Tim, thanks for that reminder.

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Let's just spell a little bit of the rumors as well.

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So here in California, we have our base rate of 7.25.

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So yes, 7.25% is the largest or the highest sales tax rate

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in the country, but as a reminder here,

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this isn't just the state's rate.

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as we saw that breakdown, it's the accumulation of transportation funding

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propensity to and also the 1% local Bradley Burns. So it's a little bit of a

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difference when especially when we're focused on some of the other states. These

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rates that you see like 7% out in Tennessee, that is their state rate. Then locals

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get to add on top of that. So while we are the highest in the nation, just here as

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as far as the state of the state's rate,

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when we combine and then average it out,

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it's actually Tennessee that is the highest in the nation

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as far as average sales tax rate at nine and a half percent.

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We are number seven in the country

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when we factor in all of our local add-ons.

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But another big point as you see down at the bottom of the screen,

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Hawaii is the lowest at four percent,

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but that tax breath percentage

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and really kind of spanning what each state allows to be taxed, really starts to change the picture a little bit.

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Here in California, we only tax about 19% of what otherwise could be taxed, whereas then you look down below at Hawaii with a low sales tax rate,

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and they tax almost 94% of all items, whether it be goods and services, goods and services,

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or anything allowed within their own constitution to be taxed they do.

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So again, it kind of changes the mantra, I think, for, oh, you know, California is a high tax

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to rate state. Yes, but we've got some qualifiers in there. So just a little bit extra on the tax rate.

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As Craig, I think in most everybody kind of gets tripped up, right? Back before 2017, as you look

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on the screen here, far left, we had the Board of Equalization or BOE. Very easy acronym to remember.

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They were the ones who were administering our sales tax returns and thereby the data.

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So a lot of us got kind of entrenched with BOE in 2017, a little bit of a change in the day-to-day operations.

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The legislature decided that there could be, the day-to-day could be a little bit better if it was under the authority of the governor instead of the four board elected members of BOE.

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So, they moved all the day-to-day operations over to and created the California Department

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of Tax and Fee Administration, or CDTFA, and kind of the new acronym.

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Again, everybody kind of gets tripped up there, but this change happened in 2017, and it's

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what we're working with today.

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There's also, as you see the far right, a office of tax appeals anytime.

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And we have a taxpayer who wants to question CDTFA

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and their enforcement of revenue and taxation code.

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It ends up inevitably with the office tax appeals.

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So just kind of knowing it administratively

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who's over the top of our sales tax.

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What is taxed?

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And in a simple form definition why sales tax is imposed

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on all sales of tangible personal property.

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I've got a slide coming up here to talk about what isn't,

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but we'll reside there of tangible personal property, and it's only taxed once when purchased or used by the ultimate consumer.

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So read.

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If a retailer buys or retail or buy goods at wholesale, they're by not paying sales tax, right? And then would collect tax when sold to the consumer. And retailers do so. They file for a resale or permit and provide that to anybody they buy goods from. So, again, just a little bit of a definition there. What is not taxed? I've got some bullet points here. But most notably you see down at the bottom of the screen.

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We've got CDTFA publication 61, it's 26 pages of a lot of small print of everything that isn't

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taxed. Most notably property utilities, merchandise sold to the federal government,

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food sold for a home consumption. So these are some items and think about that slide that I just

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showed you when Hawaii tax is 94% of goods or services that could be taxed. We've got a lot of

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exemptions, but you can find them all under publication 61.

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Hey, Bobby, this is a backing up a bit. This is a great area where you see a lot of attempts

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legislatively to maybe expand the base. And also you see the impact of changing markets,

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the most notable one in this example might be computer software right used to buy,

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I'm going to aid myself here, but it used to buy a stack of discets to load software. That was

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taxable. Yeah. Now you just downloaded it's not, right? So where are we at with that just generally

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in this state right now in terms of the taxable base? Yeah, it's really been on a continual decline,

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not so much on a pathway to expansion. And I think it's twofold. It's easier when you've got known

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to just, you know, exclude. And I think most recently we've had things like female health

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products that, you know, kind of get petitioned or even children's health products that, you know,

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get petitioned like things like diapers, petitioned to not be taxable. So it's easier because you've got

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the unknown there. The unknown is really the part where I think everybody gets tripped

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up, especially the legislature, if it's a matter of trying to expand the base into things

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like services, accounting services or attorneys and other types of professional services, is

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the unknown of, well, how much revenue are we talking about with regards to, you know,

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So what's our big number that would be taxed, thereby how much tax revenue would it generate,

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It's the unknown of, well, how much are attorneys and accountants charging right now?

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And then what's a reasonable tax rate around that?

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I think the 7.25, most of us would agree, is far too much for things like professional

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services.

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And I think that that's where the legislature and folks looking to expand the base really

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did get kind of hung up.

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It's trying to nail that down now on software and I see we did have a question pop up yes

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when there was tangible property i.e. a disk if we go back into the early 2000s it made it

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a lot simpler right because you sold 10 disks with software on it you could tax it.

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Now with the downloaded, and this is an element that those cities that have a utility,

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user's tax, really are struggling with because you've got online services,

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you, below YouTube and others, that aren't taking the normal cable route, right?

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So how do you monitor it?

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How do you enforce it?

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It becomes very, very difficult, and I would say then for the majority of software

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that is downloaded onto a hard drive, it is not taxed in most cases. Unless you have more

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of software sold to a company, loaded onto company software or kind of a network drive,

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then in many cases those are taxable. So it gets into that gray area and I've got slides coming up

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on online taxes, or purchase of goods online and how taxes flow around that to go a little

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deeper on it.

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Bobbi, before you move, we got one other question, how about shipping and handling?

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I'd say generally because I've had some cities, city clients who have shown me invoices where

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shipping and handling did get taxed. And it was also because that was part of the installation

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cost of a physical office space or equipment. And because it was included with the installation

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the shipping and handling there by yes, it would be taxed. So we do end up again in gray areas

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for some items. And then last one, can you expand on food sold or for home consumption?

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Oh yeah, no, that's a great one. So because your head, right, it's, well, I went into Starbucks and

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and I bought X and it was taxed.

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and it wasn't taxed.

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Food sold for home consumption.

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Vegetables, meat, dairy products.

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and things getting excluded, those were excluded.

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prepared food, taxable, in many cases cold food, not taxable.

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taxable, sandwich already pre-prepared in a cooler,

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most likely not taxable.

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So it's, again, these are all great questions,

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but they get into the into the gray area and CDTFA also has a different publication specifically

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for hot and cold food and run the gamut of different scenarios. It's mostly for merchants

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and retailers that have to determine kind of work it into their register or their their cash

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software of when to charge when not to charge but but there's also more publications to go deeper.

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And Bobby, I promise I'll let you get up the slide, but just as a side comment, just

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Craig, if you can jump in if I'm incorrect about this, but we're getting some questions

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coming directly to host some panelists, so I think we wanted to do the Q&A when one did

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come in that way.

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So folks can do that.

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That would be great.

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Or if you do use the chat, try to chat everyone so everyone can see the question.

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Yeah, we can add on both ways.

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I mean, you know, with the one used chat,

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I mean, I'm monitoring both as well too.

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Okay, great.

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Thanks for it.

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Yeah, I also, I've got the chat open,

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and I notice we've got a question on

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if you're going to consume on the premises,

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or for here, it can be taxed,

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or if you take home, or, you know, to go,

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it's not taxed, it's, yeah,

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be.

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It could not be.

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Inevitably, and something that I want to say since we've got so many, again, I'm so

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thankful to have a lot of attendees here, that at HDL, when we get these questions, and

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we've gotten folks who, you know, we meet with so many people, they'll, when we were doing

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it in person I would have somebody come from their lunch and show me the receipt that they just got

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from you know a particular restaurant or whatever and it's got you know oh wait it's got an

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incorrect tax rate for the city that they're in. What we normally recommend is to reach out to your

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local CDTFA office. If you go on CDTFA's website they've got a list of all of their local offices

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And those are the people, the folks that are really in charge of following up with the

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businesses to ensure the proper tax rate is charged and collected, and then also remitted.

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So when you've got issues around the tax being charged at a particular business, feel free

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or reach out to your local CDTFA office, they're there to help you.

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It's not a case where you have to call Sacramento, which is usually a good thing.

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So then the other portion we've got sales and use tax. So let's focus then on the use tax component.

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Again in general here we've got some definitions charged on goods sold to California customers from

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out-of-state retailers. So goods coming in to be put first in use here in California.

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And it's also when taxes are collected but a local place of sale could not be determined.

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You'll see how use taxes distributed. Long ago, back when the BOE was trying to figure out, make it easy for out-of-state retailers to remit taxes. We have 58 counties. And so, but we have 480 plus cities. So less back, back during the time when they created this method of the pool. But BOE kind of, they had figured that it was easier for out-of-state retailers to remember which county they sent the goods into.

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and thereby they would, you know,

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remit the tax into the county pool.

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That's the first part of what you see here.

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the pool gets distributed out to each agency within the pool,

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based on your pro-rata share of sales activity that quarter.

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the pool percentage of pool gets calculated.

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all that money just kind of comes out of a bucket there.

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there with the pool to each agency.

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So that was the methodology originally.

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that the pool methodology was created

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and it's still in place now.

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And I'll go a little bit deeper on the pools

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when you see us talk about data more specifically

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So tax returns, right?

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Right, we've got up top here, kind of some thresholds of different average liability size

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and thereby, you know, we do have taxpayers who file annually.

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Then as businesses have grown and we've got extremely large businesses all over the state,

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those that are in excess of 17,000 or more per month collected need to remit monthly

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and thereby kind of pre-pay as they're going through their quarter.

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They still need to file a quarterly return with CDTFA, but we see cash flow a little bit

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more frequently on a monthly basis from very large retailers.

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So let's put it in perspective here of how it all comes together. I've got some sample

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months here. So we got sales during the fourth quarter calendar year, right? So it's

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October, November, December. It's the time period we're living in right now. Sorry for

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those that watch this later. But October, November, December, sales period, the returns aren't

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do until the end of January.

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So retailers get a full month to file that return.

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CDTFA does a reconciliation and a final payment in March.

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ourselves, we get the data in March, March one.

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and May to go over the fourth quarter results.

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So this is really the technical side of kind of the delay that we always talk about and why we're always looking back at history and it feels so far away.

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And simply because of the time it takes for remitters to file the return, then a whole another month for CETFA to reconcile it all and get final payments out to local agencies.

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and then I'll also show you in a few slides how that breaks down into your

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ledgers and onto your cache reports, but this is just focus on that timing

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mechanism.

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And we're on to poll question number two. I

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am on mute, I seem to be

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having that problem today. So poll question number two, how often are most

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tax returns filed?

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And we'll give everybody a few minutes here to jump in and

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respond? Your reminder, most tax returns. Not just payments, but tax returns. And in

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Bobby and the interim, we got a question in the chat, how many returns are filed quarterly

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with the state? I heard an estimate of 8 million once. Do you happen to know that?

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Oh, great question. I think my mind first goes to, does 8 million seem reasonable?

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with out-of-state retailers, filing so much, it's funny when we talk coming up here about online

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Kind of recalculated that because Amazon does have to file for so many or any retailer that it administers the sale for $8 million annually, I would say that's probably a pretty good number. Yeah, probably not so much quarterly, but annually might be good.

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And our results are up and good responses.

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Now that, yeah.

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Yeah, there are in annually and monthly.

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We talked about them now, the majority,

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even those that file monthly,

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they still, or they, they pay monthly,

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but they still need to file the quarterly return.

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And then obviously there are less that file.

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So, great job there.

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Yeah, and then Bobby, how close this is an interesting one?

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How close are we to real time payment of sales tax?

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And yeah, it's in a couple of slides, but CDTFA has been working hard ever since they were created back in 2017.

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2017, the implementation of the cross or CROS system definitely sped up their ability

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to process payments from retailers, file a lot more payments electronically, and then

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turn those around back to local agencies.

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I would say that cross system is also helping them break down when they get monthly payments,

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who's it coming from, who's it applicable to, we're starting to see more of that data.

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real-time, and there's always going to be a lag, right?

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let's say their monthly activity was in October,

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they still have to process that in November

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and get it to CDTFA, they still need time to do it.

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but I would definitely tell you, since 2017,

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we've spent the process out quite a bit.

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So you got a great question there.

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All right. So let's move through. So we've talked about then sales tax and the tax returns. Where does the Bradley burns the 1% local remember the state gets about 4% counties and the 58 counties that we have get their portion.

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Transportation agencies, but the local Bradley burns is is kind of a big one for for cities, especially so the majority of brick and mortar storage.

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you'll see it here, bullet point number one, are all and all car dealerships. So where car dealerships

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are physically located, restaurants, gas stations, they were meant to the agency where the sales took

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place. When we talk car dealerships, let's not talk Tesla, let's talk Chevy and Honda and the others.

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We can have that discussion as we need to, but think where the sales actually took place. And regulation

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1802 is that again, kind of from the educational side, that's which kind of set that in place.

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into the county pool where goods were shipped.

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That, you know, we talked about that,

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it's into the county, then each agency, each city gets a piece of the county pool. So it's not

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exact but it was kind of meant to replicate where the majority of transactions take place which is

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kind of that first bullet point. You'll see the exception there. Purchases greater than half

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million dollars. There is exceptions within that pool. If we have over half million dollars technically

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the use tax is supposed to get allocated to the jurisdiction where the goods were shipped, the specific

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jurisdiction. So, you know, kind of large pieces of physical equipment, like I think like

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a fire truck, whatever agency that got delivered to, that's where the use tax dollars are supposed

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to go. And I can tell you, it's a big part of our business at HDL, or we're looking into

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the pool for large single allocations, where no, it didn't, the merchant didn't follow the

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rules and allocated directly. So we have been, and you're usually pretty successful pulling

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and money out of the county pool,

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making sure it's allocated to specifically for our clients,

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where it should have been.

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So, Bob, and I ask a nuanced question there.

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So, sticking with the fire truck example,

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let's say I buy a fire truck from Pierce fire manufacturing,

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it's manufactured in Wisconsin,

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it's shipped to the reseller in Sacramento

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and they do a buildup on it

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and then it's delivered to the city of Syville.

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Whole sale transaction between Pierce and the retailer and Sacramento. As soon as they finalize it and then ship it over to Sunnyvale, then the Sacramento becomes the place of, yeah, for the transaction. Great. Yeah. Good question there. Final bullet point here. When we're talking about the, the countywide use tax school. Remember, as I made mentioned before, a lot of goods coming from out of state, but we also have additional.

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items that flow in private private private to private party vehicle transactions think DMV and used cars where there's no dealership involved.

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That all goes into the use the countywide use tax pool catering and food trucks are not required to, you know, call you know, remit back to the amount of sales that they had

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within a particular jurisdiction because they're driving around so under revenue and taxation code they're able to just put into the county pool.

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Whatever county they sold they had sales in also monthly equipment leases merchandise installed on buyer's site as part of the sale, which again this is a bit of a tricky one.

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The merchandise installed versus where the retailer was who sold it to us.

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So there's some technicalities there.

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Another one that has jumped up, if you're a client of ours

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and you've seen the report, another one that has jumped up

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is UberEats because they have no physical location

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but they are administering the transaction

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between the restaurant and the consumer.

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They're required to collect and remit

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and they allocate into the countywide use tax pool as well.

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So just some examples, there are other things that go into the the countywide

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Online sales, talk about it, kind of let up to it, the gray area. If you

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will, let's get some clarification on terms real quick. As you'll see here on

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the screen, number one is distribution centers or warehouses. Just physical

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goods that are brought in, maybe on one side of the building, shipped across and

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and then put on two smaller trucks

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just, there's no storage of any goods, right?

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So, obviously, across the state,

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we've got a lot of distribution centers and warehouses,

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generally not where sales tax gets allocated

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because their goods are not held in inventory

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at any point within those facilities.

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So the other side of that is fulfillment centers.

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location where goods are stored and inventory ordered or processed and goods are taken from the

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inventory and shipped to the customer so even and I think within the next slide we get an idea of

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what this looks like but even if you've got a big building right and you might think oh that's

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a fulfillment center well not exactly it depends on how are they utilizing that facility so you see on

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the top of the screen or the picture there. The big box we've seen as we drive around.

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Very fascinating why I have these in here are some aerial shots. The one on the left side of

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the screen is the Stockton Municipal Airport and over on the right is March Air Force Base which

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is located in Riverside County. Pretty fascinating. If you go on Google Maps and just kind of look at

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any airport that's around you, and I say almost any because, you know, if there's a landing strip long enough for an Amazon plane or a UPS plane, they've probably figured out how to local agencies have probably figured out how to use the land around that airport.

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I can't build homes there so okay a lot of industrial now we get a lot more distribution centers and fulfillment centers right and so we're kind of distinguishing between those.

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But it's pretty fascinating if you look around and most notably Amazon has done a fabulous job of figuring out its logistical chain and they've been the largest they are the largest online retailer.

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We've talked about it with so many clients and why it's such a hot topic after AD 147.

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Again, that's the implementation of out-of-state online retailers.

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Depends on now where the goods are located at the time of purchase.

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And so here, we get this little breakdown.

420
00:39:40,710 --> 00:39:44,890
Again, it's still a big, great area, but this hopefully helps bring it in.

421
00:39:44,890 --> 00:39:51,170
And in the chart, you'll see location of inventory in that first column, an in-state,

422
00:39:51,430 --> 00:39:59,430
a big deal there, when you got the order desk, or kind of where they're taking the orders

423
00:39:59,430 --> 00:39:59,970
from the company.

424
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:19,580
And that's in state, it's the jurisdiction where the order is placed. And thereby, that's, you know, where we see these large fulfillment centers getting dollars allocated to those local jurisdictions. When it's out of state, it's then jurisdiction where the inventory is first taken out of inventory.

425
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:29,820
So again, we end up with when it's, you know, could it be, you know, could it be a fulfillment center?

426
00:40:29,820 --> 00:40:40,920
It really comes back to how is the business going to use that facility and what's their mechanism or taking orders and having inventory and marrying those two up.

427
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:58,900
The bottom two there out of state, even though we've got the order desk in state, those usually reside into the countywide pools any goods that were out of state and the order desk or the business is out of state, those also get allocated into the pools.

428
00:40:58,900 --> 00:41:06,020
why we tried to lay that foundation of having these county-wide pools, what makes it up now when we're talking about online, it makes sense.

429
00:41:08,910 --> 00:41:19,030
Bottom of the screen here, AB 147 regulations on out-of-state online retailers, why it was so big, effective April 1, 2019.

430
00:41:19,970 --> 00:41:28,710
As you'll probably see when Tim's talking about the county, the city's trends and over time, many of you, if you've been our client,

431
00:41:28,710 --> 00:41:35,410
you'll we will have seen these this large increase of pool allocations and all of a sudden now

432
00:41:35,410 --> 00:41:41,310
out of state on our retailers required to collect and remit. This was a major shift for us and

433
00:41:41,310 --> 00:41:46,410
it definitely helped spike revenues and then we saw it really enhanced during the pandemic

434
00:41:46,970 --> 00:41:53,390
when local retailers were closed and pretty much everybody was buying things online that it really

435
00:41:53,390 --> 00:41:59,850
drove up revenue from the county wide use tax pool and I would say it helps sustain us through

436
00:41:59,850 --> 00:42:01,310
that period.

437
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:08,440
So third up, when does it get allocated? This is really now talking about the cash

438
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:14,020
that comes to all local agencies. You can see here, first of all, at point we've got two monthly

439
00:42:15,300 --> 00:42:22,380
advances for the quarter and then the third month is the final payment and what that looks like then

440
00:42:23,860 --> 00:42:30,420
As far as timing goes, here on the screen, sales in October, November, December.

441
00:42:31,230 --> 00:42:34,260
We start seeing the first advance in the month of December.

442
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:38,800
And many times that comes from those monthly payments.

443
00:42:39,140 --> 00:42:44,200
It's kind of, it's helped reinforce by the monthly payments in October and November.

444
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:46,060
So we see revenue in December.

445
00:42:46,060 --> 00:42:52,800
Another advance in January and then in February when CDTFA collects all the data

446
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:57,120
they reconcile everything calculate the countywide use tax pool put that

447
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:04,920
into the mixes they have their final true up or cleanup payment and with the

448
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:11,540
cross-system that's where back in 2017 we used to have another monthly

449
00:43:11,540 --> 00:43:18,320
a smaller portion, you know, kind of a shorter cleanup after three quarterly advances, three monthly advances.

450
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:27,840
With in 2017, when CDTFA implemented the cross system, they were able to eliminate that extra little monthly payment.

451
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:30,220
So again, getting us a little bit more efficient.

452
00:43:30,980 --> 00:43:37,420
So the quarter, the fourth quarter you can see on the grid to the far right October, November, December.

453
00:43:37,420 --> 00:43:44,480
You can see those payments coming in, why I've got the shaded areas blocked out for all of our accountants there.

454
00:43:45,420 --> 00:43:53,460
You know during the months of July and August, you accrue back your, you normally accrue back your sales tax payments.

455
00:43:53,860 --> 00:44:05,640
And the reason is because those cash, that cash in July and August is actually, you know, from the sales activity during the second quarter or the prior fiscal year.

456
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:10,080
So it just kind of helps reinforce why we are doing year end of

457
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:13,600
cool, especially keeping the books open for 60 days to grab

458
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:14,300
those two payments.

459
00:44:17,810 --> 00:44:21,610
Then data and getting down to, yeah,

460
00:44:21,890 --> 00:44:26,870
who's not along here. So once all of the payments are remitted,

461
00:44:27,110 --> 00:44:32,970
CDTFA, especially with us as a consultant, we are able to

462
00:44:32,970 --> 00:44:37,310
CDTFA will send us the data. And what kind of uses this is a

463
00:44:37,310 --> 00:44:42,150
big part of what Tim's going to be talking about coming up, but you could see really

464
00:44:42,150 --> 00:44:47,750
three different items here. What kind of businesses exist and what might be needed, especially

465
00:44:47,750 --> 00:44:52,290
from the economic development side. Did we get everything we should have? This is that

466
00:44:52,290 --> 00:44:58,270
audit component where we, as a sales fax, we at HDOs and sales fax consultant really focus

467
00:44:58,270 --> 00:44:59,970
us in on to make sure that

468
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:29,380
And then a desire to follow economic trends and forecasting. And really for us and the team that I lead here at HDL every quarter, we do a webinar to go through, we get data and we want to talk about it, really follow economic trends on a bigger scale to try to stay on top as much as we can when it comes to forecasting. So we hold, we at HDL hold the data two different ways.

469
00:45:29,380 --> 00:45:34,620
One is cash. That's what actually came in to each agency, Hitchgill General Ledger.

470
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:41,080
Every month, we're able to kind of reconcile back to that. The other is what we call adjusted

471
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:47,320
or economically adjusted. And this is where we take things like double payments or

472
00:45:48,420 --> 00:45:54,900
CDTFA audits of businesses. We might get kind of a big burst of a payment, but it's truly applicable

473
00:45:54,900 --> 00:46:00,820
to a previous period. In our data, we put it back to when it was earned rather than just when it

474
00:46:00,820 --> 00:46:07,360
was received like the cash shows us. And this really then helps us track and follow economic activity

475
00:46:07,870 --> 00:46:14,420
a lot closer. So we're so thankful to have adjusted data, especially for forecasting purposes.

476
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:24,700
Now we've got poll question number three. That's right. And it is what does CDTFA stand for? And

477
00:46:24,900 --> 00:46:32,760
While we're taking that, I'll just give everybody a pro tip when you're getting ready for a public speaking.

478
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:40,620
A lot of people say things like unique New York, or red leather, yellow leather, or phrases like that.

479
00:46:40,740 --> 00:46:45,900
But you can also use what CDTFA stands for as a warm up.

480
00:46:45,900 --> 00:47:00,300
Yeah. I love that. I love that. I haven't, uh, haven't specifically done it, but I, yep. Yep. It's a tongue twister for sure. I think we got Craig this morning on it as well.

481
00:47:03,460 --> 00:47:05,460
So this one we've hammered home.

482
00:47:05,460 --> 00:47:13,000
I love number C, but tobacco and finance just don't coexist.

483
00:47:18,740 --> 00:47:25,360
And for me, there might be a county with a department of tariffs and foreign agencies.

484
00:47:26,180 --> 00:47:33,840
It's probably more of a state function, so hopefully everybody's got it.

485
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:42,040
Awesome, wonderful. I just saw the results 99%. Good job. Good job.

486
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:46,500
We're getting, we're

487
00:47:46,500 --> 00:47:50,800
cruising through the morning. Everybody's had their coffee now, right? That's right. We've got

488
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:57,180
some jokes coming into on the chat, so that's good to Keela and finance administration. That's

489
00:47:59,180 --> 00:48:03,980
Yeah, okay, those are some that we save that for the for the budget period, right?

490
00:48:05,340 --> 00:48:12,360
That's right. That's a that's a may a may time frame. Okay, so then breaking down the data

491
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:16,120
and I'm going to go through a couple a few more slides here and then turn it over to Tim specifically

492
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:21,680
about Sunnyvale, but breaking down the data when we get it, we focus first on major industry groups

493
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:24,220
and this really helps us bifurcate the economy

494
00:48:24,220 --> 00:48:28,640
and really watch those trends on kind of a sub-level

495
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:30,140
rather than just think of,

496
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:32,000
hey, this is what's going on in statewide

497
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:33,440
or even national.

498
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:36,720
I think that's the other part of that helps here with data

499
00:48:36,720 --> 00:48:38,640
is we hear national news,

500
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:40,860
especially on something like autos and transportation

501
00:48:40,860 --> 00:48:42,000
or new car sales.

502
00:48:42,740 --> 00:48:44,600
And then, oh wait, we gotta remember,

503
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:45,900
we're a car country, California.

504
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:47,120
We function differently.

505
00:48:47,620 --> 00:48:50,540
Bay Area, Southern California function differently

506
00:48:50,540 --> 00:48:56,380
than Central Valley. So we're able to really kind of hone in when we're thinking about the

507
00:48:56,380 --> 00:49:02,000
California economy. As a reminder, if anybody's listening and listening to state control or at

508
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:09,320
any point, I believe that we are now, I think we're fifth or sixth largest economy on the globe

509
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:18,700
in the world. And so there's so much there news to be consumed. How do we break it apart and really

510
00:49:18,700 --> 00:49:23,180
again here on the data, audit transportation, building construction, some of these are self-explanatory,

511
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:28,300
food and drugs, fuel stations, especially general consumer goods and restaurants, and then that

512
00:49:28,300 --> 00:49:36,980
county pool allocation. Right. And then as we go back, our bless to have a history of about 40 years

513
00:49:36,980 --> 00:49:45,400
now, our forefathers here didn't just stop at the major industry goes, we do get into kind of subgroups

514
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:50,260
that we call business types and that then really helps us break apart new

515
00:49:50,260 --> 00:49:56,220
autos from used autos or you know quick service think you know fast food

516
00:49:56,220 --> 00:49:59,980
versus fast casual versus casual dining versus find out.

517
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:29,920
So, we're able to really segregate out and then hopefully help you as local agencies really, really see what's going on. On the auditing side, correcting all the errors, it's a, again, a big piece of what we do. Our goal is to make sure that it gets allocated to where it should have been allocated. We are blessed to have so many local agencies as clients. And we just want to hone in and stay

518
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:34,100
within, hey, where should it have been allocated based on revenue and taxation law?

519
00:50:34,660 --> 00:50:38,040
Most notably remember that some returns are still filed by hand.

520
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:42,560
It's funny enough, but, you know, transposition areas happen really quick.

521
00:50:43,100 --> 00:50:50,600
And small retailers, even big retailers up until a little while ago, I think Walmart was still filing their statewide returns by hand.

522
00:50:51,660 --> 00:50:57,260
Currently 482 cities, 58 counties, 58 countywide pools, so a lot going on there.

523
00:50:57,260 --> 00:51:03,760
everybody's got a five-digit jurisdiction number and then also throw in the

524
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:08,060
transactions use tax. That's not even included in these numbers. We've got, I

525
00:51:08,060 --> 00:51:12,300
think, now over 300 transactions in use tax with their own six-digit number.

526
00:51:12,820 --> 00:51:17,740
So a lot going on there. Also, city boundaries were not drawn with straight lines.

527
00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:21,340
So a north side of the street could be different than the south side of the

528
00:51:21,340 --> 00:51:26,240
street or, you know, one block from another. We've got business parks that fall in

529
00:51:26,240 --> 00:51:34,660
between different agencies and so auditing gets pretty tenuous and a little bit difficult,

530
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:36,420
but that's what we're here to do.

531
00:51:38,140 --> 00:51:44,400
And then number four here, a bit of a myth or isn't that what we pay CDTFA administration

532
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:44,940
for?

533
00:51:46,340 --> 00:51:52,260
Yes, but not exactly, because they don't have enough staff to really go through the data,

534
00:51:52,260 --> 00:51:56,540
especially at the level of details that we as sales tax consultants do.

535
00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:01,620
So, it would be nice if they did, but we're kind of thankful that they don't.

536
00:52:01,720 --> 00:52:02,560
It keeps us in business.

537
00:52:04,180 --> 00:52:08,760
Then I'm forecasting, and I'll just touch on this really quickly because Tim's going to spend more time.

538
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:13,980
We at HDL on the value, hopefully the value that we provide to our clients.

539
00:52:14,900 --> 00:52:19,540
We've got a total database that contains approximately 98% of all statewide data.

540
00:52:19,540 --> 00:52:21,720
and gives us a nice big view of everything going on.

541
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:25,100
I lead the team of 17 who review data quarterly.

542
00:52:25,700 --> 00:52:28,440
We've got highly experienced

543
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:31,300
a former government fiscal leaders on our principal team

544
00:52:31,300 --> 00:52:34,500
who develop and customize each forecast

545
00:52:34,500 --> 00:52:36,500
for each of our clients.

546
00:52:36,860 --> 00:52:38,140
So really spending that time,

547
00:52:38,140 --> 00:52:40,300
not just reading and thinking about what's going on

548
00:52:40,300 --> 00:52:42,640
on a big scale like statewide.

549
00:52:42,860 --> 00:52:45,260
It's bringing it back down to what does your jurisdiction

550
00:52:46,520 --> 00:52:48,600
generate and where's it all coming from.

551
00:52:51,260 --> 00:52:55,060
And I think here, yeah, just kind of these were bullet points

552
00:52:55,060 --> 00:52:57,980
of how we go about building the forecast.

553
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:02,320
We obviously bottom point here is we adjust

554
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:04,860
for anomalies in one time missing payments

555
00:53:04,860 --> 00:53:08,840
or maybe just a kind of a momentary spike

556
00:53:09,540 --> 00:53:11,480
in whatever consumers are buying.

557
00:53:11,580 --> 00:53:13,220
We know it's gonna come back down.

558
00:53:13,420 --> 00:53:15,120
We try to adjust for all those.

559
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:19,340
But at this point, I'm gonna turn, oh, we got one whole question

560
00:53:19,340 --> 00:53:25,300
then I'm going to turn over to him officially so yeah so what is the care we're going to go back

561
00:53:25,300 --> 00:53:34,180
a bunch of slides now what is the California sales tax rate. The base sales tax rates should

562
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:36,500
I

563
00:53:36,500 --> 00:53:40,730
cheat Tim and go all the way back or I would just kind of hope the coffee kicked in.

564
00:53:41,750 --> 00:53:43,590
No, I think that's what we get.

565
00:53:50,690 --> 00:53:51,450
Or a shooter.

566
00:53:52,070 --> 00:53:52,250
Oops.

567
00:53:53,310 --> 00:53:53,730
Oh, did you?

568
00:53:53,930 --> 00:53:55,350
Oh, Craig, Craig got that one.

569
00:53:56,210 --> 00:53:56,510
Yeah.

570
00:53:57,170 --> 00:53:57,670
Craig, yeah.

571
00:53:58,230 --> 00:53:59,010
Craig's got it now.

572
00:54:00,170 --> 00:54:01,930
I don't know if I can do that.

573
00:54:02,810 --> 00:54:03,150
Yeah.

574
00:54:03,650 --> 00:54:04,610
Facials tax rate.

575
00:54:08,050 --> 00:54:10,830
Yeah, we can just wait for those per people to finish responding to this poll.

576
00:54:10,970 --> 00:54:11,510
We can handle it.

577
00:54:12,390 --> 00:54:12,790
Yeah.

578
00:54:13,450 --> 00:54:13,850
Okay.

579
00:54:13,850 --> 00:54:23,650
Yeah, it looks like we've also got a question in the chat after adjusting for inflation has sales tax revenue return to pre-COVID levels.

580
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:28,620
Is where I kind of separate because I focus mostly on what's coming into local agencies specifically, especially when it comes to forecasting. So we don't do a lot of retro back to year 2000 inflation adjusted. But I think with the boom that we saw post COVID, we are back in excess of, otherwise, you know, inflation adjusted what we were generating back back in 2000. It's kind of the most notable mark.

581
00:55:28,620 --> 00:55:29,660
I

582
00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:46,520
jump on there and say that all that question, you know, you can kind of answer it at the aggregate level, but it also depends heavily on your individual conditions of an individual jurisdiction as to how much it's bounced back.

583
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:51,820
You know, it really depends on your sales tax producers, right?

584
00:55:51,820 --> 00:55:57,480
Absolutely, yeah, a lot of businesses moved around during the pandemic and post-pandemic,

585
00:55:57,600 --> 00:56:03,360
but on a bigger statewide basis, you know, that's kind of where I would speak, but most certainly Tim,

586
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:09,980
depending on your jurisdiction, if you've lost a retailer, you may not be back to where you were.

587
00:56:11,580 --> 00:56:18,220
It's not so much because of COVID specifically, it's retail or moved or relocated out of state,

588
00:56:18,220 --> 00:56:25,580
which is becoming you know a bigger a bigger piece of it yeah all right so I'll just run

589
00:56:25,580 --> 00:56:31,460
through my section here good morning everybody and thanks for joining us just quick overview on

590
00:56:31,460 --> 00:56:38,000
Sunnyvale you know we have about 8,000 businesses in the city and the majority of those are small

591
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:44,960
businesses and but we're a full service city and we rely heavily on sales tax it's one of our

592
00:56:44,960 --> 00:56:51,940
major general fund revenue sources and it is very volatile in Sunnyvale and I'll talk

593
00:56:51,940 --> 00:56:54,640
a little bit about why that is next slide.

594
00:56:58,090 --> 00:57:04,950
So how Sunnyvale uses the sales tax data and we do, you know, contract with HDL and

595
00:57:04,950 --> 00:57:10,210
meet with them, you know, quarterly and use some of the services that Bobby was talking about.

596
00:57:11,790 --> 00:57:16,970
But it's, we don't just end there, we don't just take their information and throw in the

597
00:57:16,970 --> 00:57:17,930
a budget and call it a day.

598
00:57:18,010 --> 00:57:20,210
We do a lot of work after the fact.

599
00:57:20,490 --> 00:57:23,410
So we use sales tax data in a variety of ways.

600
00:57:23,850 --> 00:57:26,230
We do do short-term or tactical forecasting.

601
00:57:26,690 --> 00:57:28,330
We do long-term forecasting.

602
00:57:28,590 --> 00:57:31,550
We actually do 10 and 20-year forecasts.

603
00:57:32,510 --> 00:57:36,090
And then we also use it as part of our economic development

604
00:57:36,090 --> 00:57:39,510
efforts and just to monitor overall community economic health

605
00:57:39,510 --> 00:57:41,770
sales tax can tell you a lot about what's

606
00:57:41,770 --> 00:57:43,330
going on in your business community,

607
00:57:43,330 --> 00:57:50,410
what what's happening in your city in terms of how people are you know how many

608
00:57:50,410 --> 00:57:55,570
people are shopping within the city what's the activity where the you know most

609
00:57:55,570 --> 00:58:00,210
active neighborhoods are you know developments that that where you're

610
00:58:00,210 --> 00:58:05,410
getting a lot of economic activity. We use it when we're doing specific plan

611
00:58:05,410 --> 00:58:09,390
development like we look at say else tax what's a specific plan going to

612
00:58:09,390 --> 00:58:15,590
generate or do we want to be careful for a specified area that we maintain a sales tax

613
00:58:15,590 --> 00:58:20,830
based through the specific plan in that area. And then we also use it for business attraction

614
00:58:20,830 --> 00:58:24,810
and retention. So it tells us a lot about what's happening with individual businesses.

615
00:58:25,570 --> 00:58:26,030
Next one, Craig.

616
00:58:29,350 --> 00:58:33,990
So we have a set of policies that guide our sales tax forecasts and actually

617
00:58:33,990 --> 00:58:42,890
all of our revenue forecasting and these are all you know council policies and we spend a lot of

618
00:58:42,890 --> 00:58:50,190
time with our council really trying to remain disciplined in our revenue forecasting but we do

619
00:58:50,190 --> 00:58:57,570
try to based all of our revenue forecasts on good detailed information about historical

620
00:58:57,570 --> 00:59:02,710
performance and I'll get into that a little bit but that's also combined with judgment right revenue

621
00:59:02,710 --> 00:59:07,670
forecasting isn't just about, as finance people, I know we all have this desire to have

622
00:59:07,670 --> 00:59:13,370
everything, you know, tie out, and it has a, you know, a supporting documentation.

623
00:59:14,170 --> 00:59:18,090
And, but that's not really, you know, when you get into the forecasting world, that's not

624
00:59:18,090 --> 00:59:18,950
really what we're doing.

625
00:59:19,050 --> 00:59:25,750
What we're doing is making more subjective forecasts, especially over the long term, where we're

626
00:59:25,750 --> 00:59:30,150
thinking about what's going on in the city, and sales tax helps us do that.

627
00:59:31,270 --> 00:59:34,110
And so these policies also help us do that.

628
00:59:34,250 --> 00:59:37,510
We're required to use 10 years of data when we're doing forecasting.

629
00:59:38,530 --> 00:59:44,970
We're one of the big things I'll get into a little bit is about how we handle one time revenues versus ongoing revenues.

630
00:59:45,350 --> 00:59:51,770
And sales tax even has components that are sort of one time in nature and understanding those is important.

631
00:59:52,110 --> 00:59:52,830
Next slide, please.

632
00:59:52,830 --> 00:59:58,470
All right, so this is how for Sunnyvale Sales 10X is distributed.

633
00:59:58,650 --> 00:59:59,930
You can see the, the, oh,

634
01:00:00,460 --> 01:00:04,780
0.125 cents that is collected. Next slide.

635
01:00:07,480 --> 01:00:32,100
So here's a little bit. Bobby talked a little bit about the categories. And this is a little bit about how we analysis and analyze our different categories. And you can see here, this is a 13 quarter history and and credit hdl for producing this, this kind of graphical information for us. But you can see our largest, you know, the largest percent of our sales tax comes from the business and industry.

636
01:00:32,100 --> 01:00:39,060
category, and you can see how volatile that is and how it behaves, you know, throughout

637
01:00:39,060 --> 01:00:46,720
economic cycles. And one of the questions that came up in the chat is, you know, how

638
01:00:46,720 --> 01:00:53,320
can there's been some news lately from a couple of jurisdictions where there's been either

639
01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:59,920
misallocations or CDTFA has come in and audited and is requiring a reallocation and even

640
01:00:59,920 --> 01:01:08,620
a repayment of sales tax and that can be that's a real risk for jurisdictions and one of the ways

641
01:01:08,620 --> 01:01:14,600
you can hedge against that is to really understand the businesses that are in each one of these

642
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:21,080
categories and why things are peaking and you know where the volatility is coming from so

643
01:01:22,060 --> 01:01:27,940
I'll get into that a little bit more about how we do that but these are our categories and we

644
01:01:27,940 --> 01:01:33,620
spend a lot of time, and here is where you can also really see what's going on with state and

645
01:01:33,620 --> 01:01:39,080
county pools, which has been changing drastically. Next slide.

646
01:01:41,790 --> 01:01:42,870
All right, so here's a little bit of

647
01:01:42,870 --> 01:01:48,630
a longer look, and here you can really see the volatility in the business and industry category,

648
01:01:48,830 --> 01:01:56,990
where it was really at a peak way back coming out of the great recession, and then, you know,

649
01:01:56,990 --> 01:02:02,670
So, you know, has come down pretty quickly or pretty significantly.

650
01:02:03,470 --> 01:02:09,090
I will, you know, commenting on what's happened with sales tax as a return to pre-COVID levels.

651
01:02:09,570 --> 01:02:17,530
For Sunnyvale, sales tax has been effectively flat for most of my career in Sunnyvale.

652
01:02:17,650 --> 01:02:23,930
If you look over all the years, if you go way back to the .com bubble, you know, our sales

653
01:02:23,930 --> 01:02:31,690
tax was floating around, you know, 32 million a year, and we're still hovering around 30,

654
01:02:31,770 --> 01:02:39,170
32 million a year. So really it's up and down, but it's really hasn't grown over all that time,

655
01:02:39,550 --> 01:02:44,890
and as Bobby indicated, it's sort of been, you know, the taxable base has been eroding, you know,

656
01:02:45,450 --> 01:02:50,390
and so that's a lot of what's going on within my own jurisdiction. Next slide.

657
01:02:50,390 --> 01:03:00,090
Yeah, even on that point, if Craig, if you go back, you can see it's even the last two slides have been very, they've got their own story within that.

658
01:03:00,390 --> 01:03:19,690
Sure, here on the major industry groups, the far left is 2Q20. That's the depths of the pandemic of when all businesses shut down right and revenue at, you know, even restaurants and fuel stations kind of, you know, dropped off and then the growth that we've seen, the dramatic growth locally that you've seen.

659
01:03:19,690 --> 01:03:34,250
But as you touched on, so volatile for business and industry that kind of peaked out there in 2022, if you go back or go to the next slide there, Craig, you can see that high mark on B and I.

660
01:03:35,510 --> 01:03:37,610
for a city of Sunnyvale back in 2012.

661
01:03:38,470 --> 01:03:40,150
And kind of, okay, what was going on there?

662
01:03:40,290 --> 01:03:42,870
It was we were coming out of the great recession

663
01:03:43,410 --> 01:03:48,430
and kind of a return or a flock to where you're located, right?

664
01:03:48,610 --> 01:03:50,530
So the middle of the heart of Silicon Valley,

665
01:03:51,250 --> 01:03:53,170
and wow, that really did.

666
01:03:53,430 --> 01:03:55,510
Those businesses buying equipment and other things,

667
01:03:55,710 --> 01:03:56,810
generating so much sales tax.

668
01:03:56,810 --> 01:03:59,410
And now that's really cooled off and come down.

669
01:04:01,730 --> 01:04:06,510
It's fascinating to kind of think about the stories that are included with these graphs.

670
01:04:07,690 --> 01:04:11,270
Yeah, and that's why it's important to understand your business community because you need to,

671
01:04:11,810 --> 01:04:18,370
you know, those peak years, they were tied to, in business and industry, they were tied to, you

672
01:04:18,370 --> 01:04:25,410
know, a single sales tax producer. And when we looked at that, you know, what they were selling,

673
01:04:25,410 --> 01:04:31,710
how their business model was working, we said there's some risk there that you know there

674
01:04:31,710 --> 01:04:37,810
were some questions around how it was being reported, what was the actual point of sale and I can't

675
01:04:37,810 --> 01:04:43,770
get into details because of you know confidentiality reasons but what I can tell you is what we did

676
01:04:43,770 --> 01:04:50,850
was when we were doing our forecasting we took that out of our forecasts we said we don't want to

677
01:04:50,850 --> 01:04:55,230
count on this because we don't know when it's going to go away and we have to build service delivery

678
01:04:55,230 --> 01:04:59,830
on those revenues. So that's an example of where we were taking that in as one

679
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:06,860
So, there are ways that you can really use the analysis and the detail, you know, to help your forecasting next slide.

680
01:05:10,100 --> 01:05:31,780
And here you can see, you know, sort of what's been happening with brick and mortar versus online. And it's really, you know, the pandemic really changed the picture. And it was just a very big difference in how it was behaving. And, you know, county pools and online sales,

681
01:05:31,780 --> 01:05:37,960
they kind of cut both ways, right? You get revenue from sales, you wouldn't otherwise get

682
01:05:38,580 --> 01:05:44,640
because, you know, the businesses are not in your city. However, you get a smaller piece of it,

683
01:05:44,800 --> 01:05:51,380
right? So it kind of, you know, it really is a mixed bag of how it works for you.

684
01:05:52,740 --> 01:06:00,240
But in any case, it is what it is, right? So we have to understand it and be able to forecast it,

685
01:06:00,240 --> 01:06:05,320
in a really use it in a way that helps us.

686
01:06:05,720 --> 01:06:10,120
One of the reasons on our economic development efforts

687
01:06:10,120 --> 01:06:12,560
we're always trying to get in sales tax producers

688
01:06:13,240 --> 01:06:15,440
is because not only does that produce sales tax

689
01:06:15,440 --> 01:06:17,020
as brick and mortar sales tax,

690
01:06:17,660 --> 01:06:19,960
but it helps you with your pool allocation, right?

691
01:06:20,080 --> 01:06:22,260
You're a bigger percentage of the county-wide pool

692
01:06:22,260 --> 01:06:24,060
when you have more sales tax producers.

693
01:06:24,580 --> 01:06:25,760
So, next slide.

694
01:06:28,820 --> 01:06:30,600
All right, so we have another poll question,

695
01:06:32,140 --> 01:06:38,360
which generates more sales tax in Sunnyvale, online or more.

696
01:06:39,500 --> 01:06:41,560
And we were just there, so hopefully you can see.

697
01:06:46,150 --> 01:06:49,910
And I think we can keep going so we can get to some questions here, Craig.

698
01:06:50,210 --> 01:06:53,490
So here's how we forecast.

699
01:06:53,910 --> 01:06:56,930
And so let's see.

700
01:06:57,110 --> 01:07:01,630
So let me get into a little bit about the philosophy around long term forecasting.

701
01:07:01,630 --> 01:07:04,870
A lot of people get hung up on how accurate are you?

702
01:07:05,090 --> 01:07:11,050
Like I regularly get the question, well, when you do a 20-year forecast, how accurate

703
01:07:11,050 --> 01:07:11,470
is that?

704
01:07:11,590 --> 01:07:15,410
How do you really know what's going to happen 10 years from now, but you don't, right?

705
01:07:15,610 --> 01:07:16,510
That's not the point.

706
01:07:16,650 --> 01:07:19,450
The point isn't to be really precise.

707
01:07:19,690 --> 01:07:25,430
The point is to answer the question, can you sustain your current expenditure base, given

708
01:07:25,430 --> 01:07:28,630
and what you would assume is a pretty moderate

709
01:07:28,630 --> 01:07:32,750
or reasonable growth in your revenue sources.

710
01:07:33,450 --> 01:07:36,130
Sales tax we rely on, but we also look at it

711
01:07:36,130 --> 01:07:39,710
as a basket of our top four or five general fund revenues.

712
01:07:40,450 --> 01:07:43,090
So we don't only look at individual revenue behavior,

713
01:07:43,290 --> 01:07:46,330
we look at those revenues as a group,

714
01:07:46,590 --> 01:07:49,510
because sometimes property tax might move up,

715
01:07:49,650 --> 01:07:53,550
sales tax might move down, one exceeds your projections,

716
01:07:53,550 --> 01:08:00,650
One doesn't meet your projections, but on a whole you're still okay and you're making adjustments as you go.

717
01:08:01,330 --> 01:08:08,250
What we're currently in budget as a lot of you are and we're starting to look at our revenue forecasting.

718
01:08:08,550 --> 01:08:12,830
There's not really enough data at this point in the year to give really good forecasts.

719
01:08:13,050 --> 01:08:18,630
But one of the questions we're asking about sales taxes has the base changed.

720
01:08:18,630 --> 01:08:32,350
You know, we've got we've had inflation. We've had prices go up. Are those prices going to come back down though even with inflation slowing right so has the base changed we're really trying to understand that right now next slide.

721
01:08:37,460 --> 01:08:49,200
So another thing we look at closely is sales tax per capita so we're trying to understand like where where are we missing and this gets starts getting into the economic development piece.

722
01:08:49,200 --> 01:08:57,380
And I, you know, a lot of this stuff I'm talking about today, you know, maybe it doesn't apply directly to your city or your jurisdiction.

723
01:08:58,760 --> 01:09:07,640
But I think it applies in general. And one of those, one of the important things I think is to really have a good relationship with your business community.

724
01:09:07,640 --> 01:09:11,460
I am fortunate to have an economic development unit

725
01:09:11,460 --> 01:09:15,840
in the city manager's office who maintains a lot of,

726
01:09:16,200 --> 01:09:17,640
you know, relationships with city,

727
01:09:17,880 --> 01:09:19,620
with the business community.

728
01:09:19,760 --> 01:09:22,640
They spend a lot of time going to, you know,

729
01:09:22,820 --> 01:09:24,460
events, joining bit, you know,

730
01:09:24,760 --> 01:09:28,020
going to business groups, working with developers coming in,

731
01:09:28,280 --> 01:09:32,120
trying to attract, you know, talking to brokers,

732
01:09:32,620 --> 01:09:35,480
you know, to try to attract the right time type of businesses

733
01:09:35,480 --> 01:09:38,200
is for the development that's going on in the city.

734
01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:41,260
And this is a tool that they look at,

735
01:09:41,340 --> 01:09:42,640
and our council looks at, they say,

736
01:09:42,780 --> 01:09:46,300
where are we in terms of our per capita sales tax

737
01:09:46,300 --> 01:09:47,680
compared to our neighbors?

738
01:09:48,420 --> 01:09:49,780
And you can see we're not, you know,

739
01:09:49,860 --> 01:09:53,540
we don't have a lot of brick and mortar sales tax

740
01:09:53,540 --> 01:09:55,220
in Sunnyvale, we don't have them all,

741
01:09:55,460 --> 01:09:56,780
we don't have that type of stuff.

742
01:09:57,160 --> 01:09:58,980
And that's really been a focus for us

743
01:09:58,980 --> 01:09:59,680
in our downtown.

744
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:29,740
Councilman, over the last 10, 20 years, it's really trying to bring business into our downtown. That's going to help generate revenue and move this number, you know, move us up this chart here. Next slide. It's him. I can definitely see this chart, you know, trying to so many finance professionals, even if they don't have the same demographics as any else. You get council members who are also looking at other cities and how come they are doing better? How come they generate more revenue? And this is a great way to put that. Keep that in perspective.

745
01:10:29,740 --> 01:10:41,820
of when trying to answer those questions when you're at a council meeting, right, and you get it, it's a, yep, we're not structured quite the same way, but if you don't know that, then you don't have that answer ready to go.

746
01:10:42,460 --> 01:10:43,460
Yep, that's right.

747
01:10:44,160 --> 01:10:53,960
All right, so what I was started talking about economic development services, you know, we have a deputy city manager who runs our economic development department.

748
01:10:53,960 --> 01:11:03,700
or not department, but program and one economic development manager, and they really do a few things.

749
01:11:03,900 --> 01:11:08,820
They, like I said, assist development, businesses through the development process,

750
01:11:08,880 --> 01:11:10,920
either businesses that are existing or not.

751
01:11:11,660 --> 01:11:17,160
They act as sort of a conduit to city departments.

752
01:11:18,020 --> 01:11:25,200
So, you know, why am I being charged this fee or what's the basis for this fee or how do I get this done or

753
01:11:25,200 --> 01:11:27,960
hey, what's going on with the parking over here, right?

754
01:11:28,200 --> 01:11:32,140
They help connect those businesses and get those responses.

755
01:11:33,100 --> 01:11:42,160
And then they really are relationship focused and you know, they spend a lot of time with the business community

756
01:11:42,160 --> 01:11:55,400
but they also look at the development that's happening citywide, our general plan, our specific plan, and try to understand how we can maintain a diverse business community because your business community is incredibly important to your to success.

757
01:11:56,420 --> 01:12:09,560
And one of the one of the most notable things that's occurred in our economic development realm recently is applied materials, which is a significant, you know, member of our business community.

758
01:12:09,560 --> 01:12:17,480
has initiated a project to build a really big innovation center in Sunnyvale.

759
01:12:17,720 --> 01:12:20,220
That's going to keep them here for a long time.

760
01:12:21,160 --> 01:12:27,780
And one of the things that they talk about is the relationship with the city.

761
01:12:28,280 --> 01:12:30,500
It's a whole basket of things.

762
01:12:30,680 --> 01:12:34,880
They talk about the universities locally and the talent that's here in Silicon Valley.

763
01:12:34,880 --> 01:12:38,080
but they also talk about the relationship with the city,

764
01:12:38,080 --> 01:12:40,300
and we've really cultivated that relationship,

765
01:12:41,000 --> 01:12:43,820
and it pays off to do that, next slide.

766
01:12:46,310 --> 01:12:51,350
So how does economic development use sales tax information?

767
01:12:52,770 --> 01:12:56,670
I talked about, it really tells a lot of stories, right?

768
01:12:57,450 --> 01:13:00,970
I always talk, when I'm talking to our council,

769
01:13:01,570 --> 01:13:02,870
it's not just about the numbers,

770
01:13:02,870 --> 01:13:05,170
it's the story that the numbers are telling,

771
01:13:05,170 --> 01:13:08,870
and getting down into the individual information,

772
01:13:09,210 --> 01:13:12,450
it can be a really nice view into your business environment.

773
01:13:12,890 --> 01:13:14,050
What's going on with restaurants?

774
01:13:14,370 --> 01:13:15,510
What's going on with hotels?

775
01:13:15,870 --> 01:13:18,250
What's happening with tech business?

776
01:13:18,750 --> 01:13:22,250
What's happening in your community?

777
01:13:22,830 --> 01:13:26,190
It also can tell you when a business is starting to feel some distress.

778
01:13:26,630 --> 01:13:29,570
And you can go and reach out directly to that business

779
01:13:29,570 --> 01:13:33,450
and say, hey, you know, everything going okay?

780
01:13:33,450 --> 01:13:37,870
what's happening with you you know and they they will we will do that and have

781
01:13:37,870 --> 01:13:43,470
conversations and see how we might be able to support them and retain them and

782
01:13:43,990 --> 01:13:48,790
then it also you know having good data helps you to communicate to your

783
01:13:48,790 --> 01:13:53,310
council why you need some retail and not a hundred percent just housing

784
01:13:53,310 --> 01:13:57,610
development right like we we developed a lot of affordable housing a lot of

785
01:13:57,610 --> 01:14:03,090
housing that's a big piece of what we do but we also have to have businesses you

786
01:14:03,090 --> 01:14:07,870
know, along with that so that that housing has, you know, services available to

787
01:14:07,870 --> 01:14:14,230
ahead. And so that's a really important piece. Next slide. Yeah. Tim, on that, on that

788
01:14:14,230 --> 01:14:19,430
front right, that business outreach is so interesting because when businesses are

789
01:15:00,110 --> 01:15:29,730
And with so much mixed use, I think this goes to your second point there, Tim, is, you know, when you've got a lot of housing, and I see one of the questions that'll be good one for us at the end here, with so much housing is there's people. Well, yeah, people, people want things, people need things and, you know, services is a big piece of that and how then can the city maximize both pieces and not just get so locked in on one side. So yeah, it's, it's huge. Yeah.

790
01:15:30,510 --> 01:15:57,550
So get into and the question was, you know, can we continue to rely on sales tax right as we have in the past and I think the answer to that is we evaluate that every year, but we we know I think the shorter answer is we don't, you know, bank on any single revenue source, you know, we really look analyze it as a group.

791
01:15:58,290 --> 01:16:03,510
And we haven't been able to count on the growth that we might have otherwise, that we've

792
01:16:03,510 --> 01:16:08,150
seen, say in property tax, you know, any, everybody's seen growth in property tax

793
01:16:08,150 --> 01:16:13,510
revenue, right? But, but you really can't, you know, sales tax is much more volatile and

794
01:16:13,510 --> 01:16:19,470
much more susceptible to disruptive technologies changing the business, you know, model.

795
01:16:19,470 --> 01:16:23,390
So can I rely on it?

796
01:16:23,710 --> 01:16:28,570
I think we can continue to rely on some solid base and that's how we approach it.

797
01:16:28,830 --> 01:16:33,590
And then we say, okay, this is where the volatility lives is just above this number.

798
01:16:33,910 --> 01:16:36,070
But that's sort of how we approach it.

799
01:16:36,450 --> 01:16:38,830
The other thing we use is what are called geo areas.

800
01:16:39,090 --> 01:16:40,450
And this is geographic areas.

801
01:16:40,710 --> 01:16:45,150
And this is, you know, a snip of the ones we analyze in Sunnyvale.

802
01:16:46,750 --> 01:17:00,470
and these are various sections of the city where we like to look at them individually and understand what's happening in those geo areas with our sales tax and our businesses.

803
01:17:01,410 --> 01:17:11,450
And so one cut of the data is the business categories and type. Another way to slice the data is by geographic area and this is where we know where to make investments.

804
01:17:12,430 --> 01:17:24,330
And it's it's a way to where we know like maybe in a certain area of our city, we're missing like restaurants and, you know, and other retail that would be helpful versus, you know,

805
01:17:25,470 --> 01:17:31,790
you know, some areas of the city where there's plenty of that. So it really does, it really does help us.

806
01:17:32,010 --> 01:17:40,850
I will say the other interesting thing about sales tax and geo areas is sometimes I talked about businesses and

807
01:17:40,850 --> 01:17:47,130
distress, but it can connect to land use. So we had a particular retailer who is now completely

808
01:17:47,500 --> 01:17:54,030
out of business, but they were an electronics retailer, and they became subject to the changing

809
01:17:54,030 --> 01:18:01,210
world of electronics and computers, right? Brick and mortar electronics have been struggling

810
01:18:01,210 --> 01:18:09,410
for a while now, you know? And so we watched that particular retailer's sales tax declining year after

811
01:18:09,410 --> 01:18:15,450
year after year we knew there wasn't much we could do about that but we knew that they had a very

812
01:18:15,450 --> 01:18:21,330
large property that they were operating out of with a huge parking lot in the middle of an

813
01:18:21,330 --> 01:18:27,390
industrial zone area and so we were already thinking well in advance of their liquidating that property

814
01:18:28,130 --> 01:18:33,610
who might be able to take that land use and and turn it into a productive land use so you can

815
01:18:33,610 --> 01:18:38,950
you can really use this data to help predict some of your land use issues and other things that are

816
01:18:38,950 --> 01:18:42,830
happening in the city. Next slide. And I want to make sure we leave time for questions

817
01:18:42,830 --> 01:18:44,050
so I'll wrap up here shortly.

818
01:18:46,870 --> 01:18:50,610
So in this particular, I just want to give you a simple example,

819
01:18:50,610 --> 01:18:55,370
especially if a one-time revenue is when a construction project comes in, we reach out to them and

820
01:18:55,370 --> 01:19:00,910
ask them to record their sales tax in Citadel, right, or these tax. So they, they recorded

821
01:19:00,910 --> 01:19:06,210
there. We get a little bump, but we don't include that in our base. We treat it as one-time

822
01:19:06,210 --> 01:19:13,370
revenue and those efforts by our economic development group generated $1.1 million in sales tax revenue in

823
01:19:13,370 --> 01:19:18,490
2022. So it's not a small number in Sunnyville. It's something that's well worth our time

824
01:19:19,070 --> 01:19:26,610
to reach out to those businesses. This particular picture is the headquarters. I actually think

825
01:19:26,610 --> 01:19:32,190
they're moving here. They have moved already, but this is from a few years back for 23 and me, which

826
01:19:32,190 --> 01:19:38,530
is the genetic testing company. They came, they moved to Sunnyvale. We worked with them to record,

827
01:19:38,830 --> 01:19:44,230
you know, the business tax, the taxes that were generated from that project, and that really

828
01:19:44,830 --> 01:19:51,050
makes a difference for us. So, next slide. And we've got another poll question.

829
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So, and we're wrapping up here, I think that concludes my slides. So, which of the following was

830
01:19:59,190 --> 01:19:59,970
of the greatest...

831
01:20:09,220 --> 01:20:18,840
I would just to thank you, Minister Obama and I just thank you for your kind of outstanding

832
01:20:18,840 --> 01:20:19,840
understanding he's a very nice guy and I really thank you very much to Mr.

833
01:20:19,840 --> 01:20:20,100
Harris and have a interviews for all of the citizens of the community.

834
01:20:20,100 --> 01:20:21,200
Any questions? Let's take a look at the next president's question.

835
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Next.

836
01:20:22,120 --> 01:20:23,680
Just to thank you for your kind of solid understanding, and I would like to thank you

837
01:20:23,680 --> 01:20:24,480
for your kind of approved meeting.

838
01:20:24,880 --> 01:20:25,000
I've had a great time with the office.

839
01:20:25,000 --> 01:20:26,480
Yes, I have the appropriate summons.

840
01:20:26,480 --> 01:20:29,980
So I had some heated comments about the work that, like, it took a very nice view on

841
01:20:29,980 --> 01:20:32,460
as a finance director at a city in Orange County.

842
01:20:33,180 --> 01:20:35,780
But it's like, we've got property tax and sales tax

843
01:20:35,780 --> 01:20:39,300
as are one and two as far as revenue generator

844
01:20:40,660 --> 01:20:44,320
that you're gonna rely on it in some form or fashion,

845
01:20:44,720 --> 01:20:46,600
whether it be using the data

846
01:20:46,600 --> 01:20:48,840
and as you were talking about with economic development

847
01:20:48,840 --> 01:20:51,640
is how do you restructure locally

848
01:20:51,640 --> 01:20:57,440
or it's a mechanism to getting a local add on tax

849
01:20:58,340 --> 01:21:06,940
measure pass to generate more revenue for the bottom line, right? It's kind of, it's going to be one way or another for the future.

850
01:21:07,240 --> 01:21:17,420
And so using the data really does help with one side of that picture, before having to go to the voters to see if you can get a measure pass from one of them.

851
01:21:21,500 --> 01:21:27,300
Well guys, I don't see any questions coming in. I do have one person who's having an issue with polls. We're done. I'll have to reach out to you separately.

852
01:21:28,680 --> 01:21:37,660
Yes, the meeting will be available and see us on the website tomorrow, along with a copy of PowerPoint if you don't already have it already.

853
01:21:38,700 --> 01:21:43,160
But guys, do you see any questions, Bobby? Do you have any other questions? Anything you could think of that could you pass along?

854
01:21:43,340 --> 01:21:44,620
Oh, given given the item.

855
01:21:45,660 --> 01:21:52,100
Excluded from sales tax in California. Is it fair to say that they are a tax on the poor versus property taxes?

856
01:21:52,840 --> 01:21:53,380
Did you guys get that?

857
01:21:53,380 --> 01:21:58,450
Yeah, it's a great question philosophically.

858
01:21:59,500 --> 01:22:04,120
When it comes to taxes and who's taxed versus who's not taxed,

859
01:22:04,120 --> 01:22:07,000
is it a bit regressive versus, you know,

860
01:22:07,200 --> 01:22:11,660
proportional to income or how we, you know,

861
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would consider poor versus not as poor.

862
01:22:16,800 --> 01:22:22,600
That's, yeah, it is flat, you know,

863
01:22:22,600 --> 01:22:29,700
So although those that are buying a $200,000 car are going to pay the same sales tax rate

864
01:22:29,700 --> 01:22:36,460
as somebody buying a $7 Starbucks, or a 50-inch TV.

865
01:22:37,060 --> 01:22:45,880
So in that regard, I hate to say it is what it is, but it is also, if you buy something

866
01:22:45,880 --> 01:22:47,580
more expensive, you're going to pay more tax.

867
01:22:48,260 --> 01:22:55,280
So it's a little bit proportional that way, but yeah, Tim, I don't know if you have more thoughts on that.

868
01:22:55,400 --> 01:22:56,560
That feels on people to be.

869
01:22:57,040 --> 01:23:00,460
Yeah, no, that's a good question.

870
01:23:00,560 --> 01:23:04,860
I think about that all the time, you know, even with things like you utility users tax, right?

871
01:23:06,200 --> 01:23:09,880
I do think sales tax is somewhat regressive, right?

872
01:23:10,140 --> 01:23:17,560
It does impact as a percentage of somebody's income, somebody on the lower income scale more than it does on the higher income scale.

873
01:23:17,560 --> 01:23:27,460
income scale. I don't have a good feel for, you know, how to fix that, but I do think

874
01:23:27,460 --> 01:23:32,460
it does, it does tend, it is fair to say that it is, it is on a real aggressive side

875
01:23:32,460 --> 01:23:37,000
of tax policies. But I have to pump that one to a future webinar session.

876
01:23:37,620 --> 01:23:38,100
There you go.

877
01:23:38,680 --> 01:23:41,880
Getting to more of the Phil's Office of State of Taxation in New York.

878
01:23:43,540 --> 01:23:45,680
Well, anyways, I know another question.

879
01:23:45,680 --> 01:23:54,580
Yes, you see it. You saw it in the chat. Yeah, if a sales tax measure has passed, does the tax pay within the city same as for the Brady Burns?

880
01:23:55,300 --> 01:24:07,280
Bradley Burns. Yeah, so that's a great question. We're talking about the local add on transactions tax list there. And it functions a little differently than the way that Bradley Burns functions.

881
01:24:08,480 --> 01:24:14,520
And I just saw that come in now for vehicles, specifically, it functions completely different.

882
01:24:14,520 --> 01:24:29,520
And that is another 101 series onto itself, but in simple form, wherever the car is purchased. So from that dealership, the local Bradley burns will stay in that city.

883
01:24:29,520 --> 01:24:45,500
But if the jurisdiction that, let's say, you the carburetor live in has a local add on tax, the car dealerships will collect that and remit it to the city that you live in because of the fact that it is it's applied there.

884
01:24:45,500 --> 01:24:52,020
so that one is kind of different. One is where you bought the car, the other is where you live and

885
01:24:52,020 --> 01:24:59,500
the tax rate that you live in. You will pay the total tax rate for that jurisdiction and hopefully in

886
01:24:59,500 --> 01:24:59,800
simple

887
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:29,840
The total tax that would have otherwise been generated by unlicensed street vendors. I think for me, the majority of those would be food service, most likely. And on that line, it's probably not, you're not losing very much, if anything. Because again, that, that food, hot component versus, versus cold. But, yeah, I would say for most jurisdictions, it's going to be rather, rather small and not real.

888
01:25:29,840 --> 01:25:31,440
material to your bottom line.

889
01:25:36,890 --> 01:25:38,810
Let me see the bottom of construction sales tax.

890
01:25:41,550 --> 01:25:41,930
What's that?

891
01:25:43,330 --> 01:25:45,030
Oh, I didn't see that one.

892
01:25:45,510 --> 01:25:52,130
For construction sales tax, does the city of where they're doing the work, have the authority,

893
01:25:52,750 --> 01:25:59,470
have a construction company report sales tax, if they are based in a different city of jurisdiction?

894
01:25:59,870 --> 01:26:03,750
So when it comes to construction, new construction,

895
01:26:03,750 --> 01:26:07,630
and sales tax related to the construction of that building.

896
01:26:07,930 --> 01:26:10,170
It is actually a separate process.

897
01:26:10,450 --> 01:26:15,290
You heard Tim, I think maybe mentioned that they worked with the company to keep the sales tax there in Sunnyvale.

898
01:26:15,550 --> 01:26:23,690
It's the sales tax related to the build of the building and the items and the materials that are going in.

899
01:26:24,430 --> 01:26:28,430
When we do that, and again, probably even another good webinar there,

900
01:26:28,430 --> 01:26:45,370
is it's a matter of the developer, whoever's building the building, working with CDTFA to get a sales tax remitting number for that job site specifically.

901
01:26:46,010 --> 01:26:55,430
And then when goods come from out of state, remember that most buildings and construction are going to be concrete from a local concrete plant.

902
01:26:55,430 --> 01:27:00,830
it's going to be wood for the physical structure, but really thinking of the equipment and other

903
01:27:00,830 --> 01:27:04,890
materials, air handlers, elevators, and other things that might be going into that building.

904
01:27:05,250 --> 01:27:11,010
If that's coming from out of state, then we can actually get it not going into the county-wide pool

905
01:27:11,010 --> 01:27:17,550
going to the jurisdiction specifically, but the construction process is a completely separate

906
01:27:17,550 --> 01:27:24,150
permit with CDTFA versus kind of the normal retail permit. So I just kind of

907
01:27:24,150 --> 01:27:28,010
keep that in mind and feel free to reach out on that one specifically. If

908
01:27:28,010 --> 01:27:32,770
anybody has a question, feel free to reach out to our team and we'll be

909
01:27:32,770 --> 01:27:37,310
happy to go in deeper and even walk through specific projects if needed with

910
01:27:37,310 --> 01:27:37,530
you.

911
01:27:40,270 --> 01:27:43,330
I think Bobby, we had another question where if somebody's not

912
01:27:43,330 --> 01:27:48,430
business not filing taxes, what's the best approach? Yeah, the good good approach

913
01:27:48,430 --> 01:27:55,530
there is as I made mentioned before contacting your local CDTFA office and letting them know

914
01:27:56,110 --> 01:28:02,010
first working through I would say your sales tax consultant if it happens to be HDL,

915
01:28:02,230 --> 01:28:08,330
we'll dig through the data just to make sure lots of times businesses that we think would be

916
01:28:08,330 --> 01:28:13,750
generating a lot of revenue they don't and so they're kind of deep in our data at a very small rate

917
01:28:13,750 --> 01:28:20,230
but make sure that really not filing and then reach out to local CDTFA office have them do the

918
01:28:20,230 --> 01:28:25,210
business outreach and enforcement of revenue and taxation code is the best way to go there.

919
01:28:30,060 --> 01:28:35,740
And there was a question about contractor and subcontractors and construction, you know, tax reporting

920
01:28:35,740 --> 01:28:43,860
there. Yeah. So then it's wrong. Same topic of construction. How would it work when the main

921
01:28:43,860 --> 01:28:51,580
contractor, subcontracts the work for large building facilities. So when, and remember,

922
01:28:51,800 --> 01:29:03,120
so kind of roll back the element of a contractor, right, or having a construction project, the

923
01:29:03,120 --> 01:29:10,460
city can't force the contractor to set up that new permit. It's a voluntary process. And then,

924
01:29:10,460 --> 01:29:21,280
And once they do any it all falls under whether it's the the main developer or subcontractors falls under all of all of that permit so.

925
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:26,020
And the city, what's best for both parties? And having that line of communication, getting them to voluntarily say, yes, we'll track it and remit any sales tax that we can to the city. Then that communication continues from your developer or main contractor to its subs and making sure everybody's reporting and communicating. So I would say communication is the biggest piece there. Versions that enforcement because it is voluntary.

926
01:30:30,500 --> 01:30:33,880
Well, say no, if nothing else, I really want to appreciate. I mentioned you guys.

927
01:30:33,880 --> 01:30:38,120
appreciate your time in putting this session together and having it today and answering all these

928
01:30:38,120 --> 01:30:41,240
great questions that we've been getting. And I appreciate everyone else's time out there

929
01:30:41,240 --> 01:30:47,220
that have been listening in and learning about sales taxes today. Stay tuned for our next session

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In December, we're hoping to produce Assembly Brock from GFOA National.