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Business Tax Estimator for Selected Bay Area Cities

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Our table of business taxes gives you more details about city taxes and home-based businesses.

It covers the same Bay Area cities as this calculator.

This calculator will give you a rough estimate of business taxes for office-type businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area: Silicon Valley, the Peninsula, and some cities in the East Bay.

These are rough estimates based on information from the web that may well be out of date. They do not include county taxes or city sales and use taxes. For non-office businesses, please refer to our table of business taxes.

We originally created this tool for our own use in our last move. Although we've tried to make sure that it's accurate, there may be the occasional error. If you find one, please let us know by clicking the "feedback" link above, or commenting in our feedback forum.

Examples
Home-based professional, 1 employee, 120k revenue

E-commmerce startup with 3 employees and 100k in revenue; 240k payroll

Business services company with 20 employees and $2.5 million revenue

Administrative office with 20 employees, no revenue, and $2.4 million payroll

Computer chip manufacturer with 48,655 employees and $39 billion in revenue

Search engine with 20222 employees and $21,795,550,000 in revenue.

Number of Employees count part-time employees as half a person
Revenue
Payroll default $120000/employee
Categoriescheck all boxes that might apply to your business; every city categorizes businesses a little differently.
Administrative Offices Professional
Business Services Real estate brokers
Commercial Real estate firms
Computer Programmers Recreation/Entertainment
E-Commerce Services
Finance Solicitors
Home occupations Stockbrokers
Industrial Warehouses
Manufacturer

Disclaimer: These are very rough estimates for comparison purposes. We have omitted many details that might matter to your particular business. Always check with the city first!!

These are rough estimates only, and could be wildly inaccurate for your situation. Always check with the city to get the real numbers before making important business decisions like leasing property or relocating your company. We are not responsible for any business decisions you make based on these estimates.


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