In recent years, something as mundane and prosaic as tax season has become refracted in a more political light. The second coming of the Gilded Age is upon us, and that is increasingly reflected in Trump tax plan, as well as state and local tax structures, that offer the donor class more loopholes and breaks, and budgets that slash at societal safety nets while offering handouts to the already wealthy. This year, as we inch closer to April 15, even more of this inequity has come to light.

Over the past half century, the very rich have been remarkably successful in prevailing upon lawmakers to remake the American tax code in their favor. In the 1950s and 1960s, according to Forbes, the tax rate for the highest earners was more than 90 percent, and in the 1970s, the top marginal tax rate was 70 percent. Then came President Ronald Reagan, who, in the 1980s, prevailed in getting Congress to slash that to 50 percent. It has since fallen to the mid- to high-30s—and that doesn’t even account for the loopholes for hedge funders and real-estate magnates who end up paying lower effective taxes than wage earners, thanks to extremely low capital gains taxes and special breaks.

But it’s not just the federal tax code.

According to a new report by the progressive think tank Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), as relayed in the Washington Post, state and local governments that are heavily reliant on sales and excise taxes, rather than income taxes, shift the economic burden onto low- and moderate-income taxpayers. At every level, those who work for modest wages come up against a tax structure written by and for the extremely wealthy, particularly in red states.

“On average, the poorest 20 percent of taxpayers spend 11.4 percent of their income on state and local taxes,” the report notes. “Which is 50 percent higher than the 7.4 percent average effective rate for the top 1 percent.” This disparity is driven, in part, by the combination of higher regressive consumption taxes paired with lower personal income taxes in state and local tax codes.

“Unlike every other income group, the top 5 percent of earners pay a smaller share of state and local taxes than their share of income,” the report notes. Moreover, most local and state tax laws, while not fully accountable for income inequality, are certainly exacerbating it; only California, Delaware, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Vermont have tax structures that help close the wealth gap. These taxes aren’t felt when you get your tax returns back—they accumulate slowly over filling your gas tank, shopping for food, and buying everyday necessities like diapers and bandaids.

This year, for the first time, many working and middle-class Americans will feel the effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017—otherwise known as the Trump tax cuts—which were inordinately tilted towards the wealthy and corporations. Accountants at places like H&R Block, according to the New York Times, have had to take a new class to prepare for the changes: empathy training.

While most will see their taxes decline, about four million Americans will pay more because of deductions that were eliminated or cut back, according to the Government Accountability Office. The Trump tax cuts, despite GOP claims that they would “pay for themselves” through magical growth, also added about $2 trillion to the federal deficit. They were merely another handout to the already wealthy. Typically, when the economy grows, so to does revenues, but in 2018 they fell, due to those reductions in taxes.