Montebello, CA Local Taxes & Fees: Business Tax Classification (2026)

Section 5.08.010(A) of the Montebello Municipal Code lists eighteen separate business classifications, each with its own tax formula. An advertising vehicle pays fifty-one dollars and thirty-three cents per vehicle per day. Contractors pay seventy-three dollars and four cents per quarter, or two hundred ninety-two dollars and sixteen cents per year. A public dump pays one thousand three hundred thirty-eight dollars and thirty-eight cents per month or two percent of gross receipts, whichever is greater. Reflecting Montebello's Montebello Hills oil field, Section 5.08.010(A)(13) taxes an oil well operator at $.3329 per barrel of oil produced from wells the operator owns or runs within the city, a classification most California cities do not need.

Section 5.08.020 layers an additional tax on top of these flat rates, based on each business's prior-year gross receipts on a sliding scale running from $133.25 for receipts up to $25,000 to $1,380.82 plus eighty cents per thousand dollars over $1,000,000. Section 5.08.010(B) escalates or reduces every rate in the section each July 1st, starting July 1, 1979, by the change in the consumer price index for the Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County area measured against the June 1978 base month, except where a rate is stated otherwise.

Chapter 5.04 governs administration: Section 5.04.045 lets the license collector calculate or recalculate any classification's tax, subject to the taxpayer's right to a hearing and appeal.