April 6, 2016—The Tax Foundation has released a report showing that not only will Americans pay more in taxes in 2016 than they will for necessities such as food, clothing, and shelter, but that Americans are working about 31.5 percent of the year just to make enough to cover their tax costs.

Tax Freedom Day, the day Americans can begin keeping what they earn, falls on April 24 this year. And actually, the report clarifies, if federal borrowing is included, and it should be since it’s money promised to be paid back later, the true Tax Freedom Day for the whole country would be May 10. That’s more than 35 percent into the year.

Check out the Tax Foundation’s map to see how that breaks down by individual states:

About 31 percent of the US’s “income,” as the advocacy group’s report puts it, comes in the form of federal, state, or local taxes, which totaled nearly $5 trillion this year. About two-thirds of that money was in federal taxes.

“In the denominator, we count every dollar that is officially part of net national income according to the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the numerator, we count every payment to the government that is officially considered a tax,” the report explained.

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