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# Paying the price
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/paying-the-price/
- Published: 2004-04-28T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:15:27.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Business, Santa Monica, #archive-import

City Hall garnered $24,114,833 in sales tax revenue, a 7.8 percent increase over 2002\. Here’s how receipts broke down in the top 14 business categories, which accounted for $16,861,440\. The percentage change over 2002 is also included to the right.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 28, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/042804.pdf?ref=smdp.com)