Your taxpayer receipt

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Most people pay many taxes but never see the total, or where it goes. This is an estimate of your local tax burden in City of Vacaville, with an itemized receipt of how the city spends its General Fund.

This uses real data. The "where it goes" breakdown comes from the City of Vacaville FY2025-26 Budget (FY2025-26). The "what you pay" figures are an estimate from the numbers you enter below. Every assumption is shown — nothing here is a precise tax bill.

About your household

Rough numbers are fine. Nothing is sent anywhere — this runs in your browser.

Do you own or rent?

Home value

Assessed value; used for property tax.

Household income (before tax)

Used to estimate sales & other taxes you pay locally.

People in household

Assumptions & method

Property tax: ~1.1% of home value (California Prop 13 base rate plus typical local levies). Renters: ~25% of rent is assumed to pass through as property tax, with rent estimated at 30% of income.
Sales tax: applied to an assumed taxable-spending share of income (~28%) at Vacaville's combined rate of 8.125%. Only the city's local share reaches the General Fund.
Other local taxes (franchise, utility, paramedic, Measure M, etc.) are scaled from the city's total of these revenues per household.
Where it goes uses the city's actual General Fund expenditure shares — these are not estimates.

This is an educational estimate, not tax advice or an official assessment. See the per-tax pages and the linked budget for authoritative figures.

Taxpayer receipt

City of Vacaville · FY2025-26

Estimated local taxes you pay per year

What you pay

Where your General Fund dollars go

share of every $1

Source: City of Vacaville FY2025-26 Budget. FY2025-26 proposed budget. General Fund operating expenditures subtotal $157,225,012 (excludes transfers and internal cost allocation). Revenue: $144,963,990 (property tax $42.3M, sales tax $27.5M, Measure M $21.3M, franchise tax $5.7M, paramedic tax $7.3M, excise tax $9.4M, other taxes $8.7M, intergovernmental $2.8M, departmental fees $12.6M, other revenue $1.5M, transfers in $10.9M). Structural deficit of ~$8.9M funded from reserves.

What you can do

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Budgets are set in public meetings. Reading the budget and showing up to comment are the most direct levers you have.