When you’re looking for a potential retirement spot, keep taxes high on the criteria—since whether a state has its own income tax, and if so what it taxes, can have a big impact on how much money you’ll have left to spend after April 15 has come and gone each year.

According to a Moneywatch report, high earners can be in for higher taxes than the top rate of 39.6 percent if they add in the Affordable Care Act surtax—which may or may not survive the Trump administration—at 3.8 percent on investment income.

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