San Jacinto, CA Local Taxes & Fees: Business Tax Classification (2026)
Key Facts
- Category A minimum
- $70.00 a year for four units, plus $1.00 per extra unit
- Retail test
- 75% of total revenues derived from retail sales
- Categories B, C and D
- $70.00 minimum plus graduated employee scale
- Business not listed
- $60.00 plus graduated employee scale (§ 5.08.050)
- Out-of-town business
- Twice the prescribed fee (§ 5.08.040)
- Fits two categories
- Fee uses the basis producing the highest fee (§ 5.04.200)
- Unlicensed business
- Infraction, fine up to $500.00 (§ 5.04.510)
Summary
In the City of San Jacinto, California, a business pays its license fee according to Category A through F in San Jacinto Municipal Code § 5.08.120. Rental space, retail, manufacturing and wholesale, and professional and service businesses each start at a $70.00 annual minimum, and the last three add the graduated employee scale.
The categories referred to in this title are as set out in this section: Category A—Rental Space Each apartment, business office, hotel, motel, storage building, mini-storage building, open area storage space, convalescent home, nursing home, hospital and business of a like nature or similar character. ... Minimum of seventy dollars ($70.00) per year for the first four units, plus an additional one dollar ($1.00) per year for each unit or space over four in number. Category B—Retail/Sales Retail businesses listed in this category, and all other persons engaged in the business of making sales at retail where seventy-five percent (75%) of the total revenues of such business is derived from such sales, except as otherwise provided in this title: ... Category C—Manufacturers/Wholesalers Any business, the primary purpose of which is to manufacture and/or wholesale at a fixed place of business, manufacturers, wholesalers and businesses of like nature or similar character. ... Category D—Professionals and Service Professions and services listed in this category and any other business or calling which is not specified in some other category in this chapter:
Full Breakdown
San Jacinto sorts every business into a category before it computes a fee, and the sorting rule sits in § 5.08.120. Category A, Rental Space, covers each apartment, business office, hotel, motel, storage building, mini-storage building, open area storage space, convalescent home, nursing home and hospital, at a minimum of $70.00 per year for the first four units plus $1.00 per year for each unit or space over four. Category B, Retail/Sales, covers businesses that derive 75% of total revenues from retail sales, such as a grocer, florist, restaurant, liquor store or tavern and bar, at a $70.00 annual minimum that includes one owner, manager, agent or employee. Category C covers businesses whose primary purpose is manufacturing or wholesaling at a fixed place of business, again with a $70.00 minimum. Category D, Professionals and Service, is the catch-all for any business or calling not specified in another category, with a $70.00 minimum that includes one principal plus $25.00 for each additional principal or professional at the same address who is not an employee.
Categories B, C and D add the graduated scale in § 5.08.060, which prices full-time employees in bands: $10.00 for 1 or 2, $30.00 for 3 to 6, $50.00 for 7 to 10, and so on up to $200.00 plus $5.00 for each employee over fifty. Three part-time employees working no more than twenty-five hours each per week count as one full-time employee. Category E lists contractor trades with a fee for each, and Category F lists special businesses at fixed fees.
Section 5.08.020 bases fees on a fixed fee, the graduated scale, the graduated scale with a minimum, or gross receipts. A business named nowhere in the chapter pays $60.00 plus the scale under § 5.08.050, and an out-of-town business pays twice the prescribed fee under § 5.08.040. Under § 5.04.200(C), a business that fits two categories pays on the basis that produces the highest fee. The city council amends the fees by resolution under § 5.08.010.
Violations & Fines
Carrying on business in the City of San Jacinto without a license is an infraction under § 5.04.510, punishable by a fine of not more than $500.00, and § 5.04.520 makes each day the business is carried on a separate violation. A business that starts operating before applying for and securing a license adds a penalty of fifty (50) percent of the fee or $20.00, whichever is higher (§ 5.04.360). A renewal unpaid thirty days after expiration is delinquent under § 5.04.350.
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