The phrase "adding a burden" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of imposing additional responsibilities or difficulties on someone or something.
Example: "The new regulations are adding a burden to small businesses that are already struggling to stay afloat."
Alternatives: "imposing a load" or "placing a strain".
Employers understandably complain that adding a burden would result in further job losses.
If enforced, the court decision will throw a wrench in the fiscal progress Greece has made since narrowly avoiding bankruptcy by adding a burden of anywhere between €500m and €1bn on to the government's extremely tight budget.
A health transition is underway, adding a burden of non-communicable disease.
Paper (IV) (7) examines the hypothesis that return migration to rural households is associated with advancing illness and death, particularly from HIV/AIDS, adding a burden to families and the health system in rural areas.
The immediacy of data collection to the NAC process added to the authenticity of data collected but limited what and how much data it was possible to collect from candidates without adding a burden to what was already a stressful high stakes selection process.
The majority of our revenue comes from outside Europe, which adds a burden on our VAT reporting and makes us uncompetitive for micro-businesses in Europe against our US competitors who do not need to charge VAT.
This adds a burden on the respiratory system and may increase the morbidity and mortality in the critically ill.
"It does add a burden to others but that's what we have when we have a monarchy.
Impairment in both microcirculatory beds may reflect an unmeasured risk factor induced by blunted renal function and add a burden to the increased propensity for cardiovascular events in CKD.
"It would be foolish for Democrats to fall on a sword over what would be a very narrow bureaucratic rationale, that 'well, it adds a burden,'" Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va).
While I believe that these attitudes, mostly outside the diocese, have not distracted me from my service to you, I would be less than honest if I didn't say that they have certainly added a burden and certain anxiety to my episcopate".
