A vast majority of middle-income families are paying higher personal income taxes due to tax changes made by the Liberal government, a new study by the Fraser Institute finds. The study, which focuses on couples or single parents with children under the age of 18, finds that 86 percent of families with combined incomes between $84,625 and $118,007, which the authors defined as middle-income families, are paying $800 more on average. “For the subset of middle income families consisting of couples with children, an even greater share (89 percent) pays higher income taxes ($902 on average),” the study said. The authors argued—contrary to what the Liberals proclaimed in their first budget in 2016 that “the government has cut taxes for middle class Canadians everywhere”—the “reality” of the changes made to the income tax is “more complicated” than it seems. “The federal government has repeatedly asserted that it lowered personal income …