Please answer the given financial question based on the context.
Context: ||2019|2018|
|Current: Federal|$1,139,927|$1,294,253|
|Current: State|428,501|423,209|
||1,568,428|1,717,462|
|Deferred: Federal|34,466|(470,166)|
|Deferred: State|6,106|(83,296)|
||40,572|(553,462)|
|Income tax expense|$1,609,000|$1,164,000|
7. INCOME TAXES:
The components of income tax expense from operations for fiscal 2019 and fiscal 2018 consisted of the following:
Question: What is the percentage change in the company's 2018 and 2019 income tax expense?
Answer:
38.23