JACKETT, P.:—This is an appeal from the assessments of the appellant under Part I of the Income Tax Act for the 1959, 1960, 1961 and 1962 taxation years. The sole question involved is whether the appellant is entitled to capital cost allowance in respect of additions and improvements to its production plant made in the period from 1956 to 1960 at a total cost of $1,932,150.

SHEPPARD, D.J.:—This appeal is by the applicant, Calona Wines Ltd. from a declaration of the Tariff Board, on the alleged ground (a) that in respect of the wines ‘‘ Crackling Vin Rose’’ and “Crackling Burgundy’’, there should be levied the excise tax on

CATTANACH, J.:—This is an appal from the assessments to income tax dated September 15, 1965 for the 1963 taxation years ending March 31, 1963 and August 27, 1963 of Polestar Developments Limited, a predecessor corporation of Oakville Developments (Toronto) Limited

CATTANACH, J.:—This is an appeal from a decision of the Tax Appeal Board dated November 30, 1967 whereby an appeal from an assessment by the Minister under the Estate Tax Act, Statutes of Canada, 1958, c. 29 was allowed.

Abbott, J. (concurred in by Fauteux, Ritchie, Hall, JJ.) :— The appellant is a manufacturer and, during the period 1953 to 1962, was the president and principal shareholder of a company known as Superior Window Co., Ltd.—hereinafter called ‘‘the company”.

SHEPPARD, D.J.:—This appeal is by British Columbia Forest Products Limited from an assessment by the Minister of National Revenue for income tax for the year 1963 on the ground of the following alleged errors.

CATTANACH, J.:—The appeals of the three appellants named in the style of cause herein are from assessments to income tax for their respective 1960, 1961, 1962 and 1963 taxation years and all appeals were heard together on common evidence because the identical

Gibson, J.:—There are two issues for decision on this appeal of The International Nickel Company of Canada, Limited from assessments for income tax for the taxation years 1958, 1959, 1960 and 1961 respectively.

THURLOW, J.:—The issue in each of these appeals, which are from re-assessments of income tax, in some cases for the years 1961 and 1962 and in others for the year 1962 alone, is whether in these years the ten appellant companies were ‘associated” with each other within the meaning of Section 39 of the Income Tax Act and thus liable to tax at the higher rate prescribed by that section rather than at the lower rate which would otherwise be applicable.

CATTANACH, J.:—This is an appeal from the assessment to income tax by the Minister for the 1963 taxation year by Nassau Leasings Limited, a company incorporated pursuant to the laws of the Province of Ontario by letters patent dated January 25, 1960 with