Huntington Park, CA Local Taxes & Fees: Business Tax Classification (2026)
Key Facts
- Classification A tax
- Greatest of $1.00 per $1,000 receipts, $10 per employee, or $60 minimum
- Cap
- $4,000 per tax period for each of Classifications A, B, and C
- Classification D
- Flat-rate taxes, annual to daily, under § 3-1.301
- Classification E
- Manufacturers, same greatest-of test, § 3-1.315
- Central Business District
- $100 minimum where the annual minimum is lower
- Publicity add-on
- 35% of the tax, maximum $400, § 3-1.317
- Enforcing officer
- Director of Finance
Summary
In the City of Huntington Park, California, the business license tax depends on classification. Classification A (retail, trades, professions) pays the greatest of $1.00 per $1,000 of gross receipts, $10 per average employee, or a $60 minimum or table amount, capped at $4,000 per tax period. Wholesale (B) and contracting, utilities, and vehicle dealers (C) use the same test; D is flat rate and E is manufacturing.
Every person who, within the City, engages in the businesses set forth in this section under Classification A, or who conducts or engages in the business of selling or offering for sale anything of value at retail and not otherwise classified or taxed by the provisions of this chapter, or who engages in or conducts any trade, calling, occupation, vocation, profession, business, activity, or other means of livelihood not as an employee of another, ... shall pay one of the following annual business license taxes, whichever amount is greatest: (a) The amount of one ($1.00) dollar for each $1,000 of gross receipts, or fractional part thereof, in the preceding tax period; or (b) The amount of $10 per average number of employees as determined pursuant to the provisions of Section 3-1.213 of this article; or (c) The minimum amount of $60 or such other minimum tax as is set forth in the following table; provided, however, the maximum tax imposed in any one tax period on the professions, trades, and retail businesses which come within Classification A shall be $4,000:
Full Breakdown
Title 3, Chapter 1 of the Huntington Park Municipal Code sorts every business in the City of Huntington Park into a classification, and Article 2 sets gross receipts taxes for the first three. Classification A, in § 3-1.204, is the catch-all for retail sellers and for anyone in a trade, calling, occupation, or profession not as an employee of another, whether or not the business appears in the table. The taxpayer pays whichever is greatest: $1.00 for each $1,000 of gross receipts, or fractional part, in the preceding tax period; $10 per average number of employees; or a $60 minimum unless the table sets another. The table prints $60.00 per tax period for apartment houses, collection agencies, employment agencies, and indoor commercial automobile parking, and $75.00 for dance halls, dancing academies, and escort bureaus.
Classification B, in § 3-1.205, covers wholesale selling with the same three-part test and a $60.00 wholesaler minimum. Classification C, in § 3-1.206, covers jobbing, contracting, transporting persons or property for hire, utilities, and vehicle dealers. Section 3-1.207 caps each of A, B, and C at $4,000 in any one tax period. Classification D is the flat-rate group introduced in § 3-1.301, with taxes that are annual, quarterly, monthly, weekly, or daily as the article indicates. Classification E, in § 3-1.315, applies the greatest-of test to manufacturers. Under §§ 3-1.205 and 3-1.315, a business in the City's Central Business District Area whose annual minimum is under $100 pays a $100 minimum.
Employee counts follow § 3-1.213: take the employees earning wages in the pay periods ending nearest the fifteenth day of each month of the previous tax period, add them, and divide by 12. A business new to the City estimates its employees and files a verified statement within 30 days after the tax period ends. Section 3-1.317 adds a publicity and promotion tax of 35% of the tax otherwise imposed, with that add-on capped at $400.
Violations & Fines
A false or incomplete material statement in a return, or any other violation of the chapter, is a misdemeanor under § 3-1.141, punishable under Chapter 2 of Title 1. A statement counts as intentional if the person knew it was false or incomplete, or made it carelessly. Any violating condition is a public nuisance the City can abate, and each day is a separate offense. Conviction does not cancel tax, penalty, or interest still owed. The Director of Finance enforces under § 3-1.140, with police assistance.
Frequently Asked Questions
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