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West Virginia does not currently have a tax and expenditure limit.

 
The base year represents the year the hypothetical Taxpayer's Bill of Rights (TABOR) would have been enacted. Selecting a base year changes how the state’s TABOR is calculated because the annual growth rates of inflation and population change depending on when TABOR is enacted.
  • Year Inflation-adjusted Actual Spending
    1992 5,800,805,998
    1993 5,995,811,769
    1994 6,136,971,295
    1995 5,849,945,373
    1996 5,209,314,992
    1997 5,556,972,983
    1998 6,148,200,074
    1999 6,626,249,030
    2000 6,707,380,429
    2001 7,494,011,956
    2002 17,257,825,000
    2003 18,949,667,030
    2004 19,272,741,120
    2005 20,260,408,200
    2006 23,535,597,560
    2007 20,472,018,090
    2008 20,071,007,880
    2009 21,693,126,110
    2010 20,388,343,910
    2011 20,929,375,300
    2012 21,890,368,940
    2013 22,104,640,420
    2014 14,779,947,260
    2015 13,884,681,530
    2016 13,773,831,470
    2017 14,743,174,590
    2018 14,073,338,970
    2019 14,858,241,350
    2020 12,998,865,140
    2021 12,737,913,670
    2022 12,148,000,000
*All spending figures are in inflation-adjusted 2022 dollars.