ATO Depreciation Rates 2023

Table A
NameEffective LifeDiminishing Value RatePrime Cost RateDate of Application
AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHING:
Vegetable growing (outdoors) and sugar cane growing:
Harvesting assets:
Harvesting aids (incorporating trailers and conveyor belts)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2007
Poultry farming for breeding, eggs and meat:
Egg belt systems (under cage/nest housing) (including belts, rollers, tensioners and drive units)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Manure belt systems (under cage/nest housing) (including polypropylene belts, scrapers, rollers, tensioners and drive units)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Aquaculture:
Feeders (including belt, pendulum, scatter and blower)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2007
Other agriculture and fishing support services:
Pulse and seed processing assets:
Product and raw material handling and receiving assets:
Tubulators/Mobile belt conveyors/Belt shifters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2017
MINING:
Materials handling assets:
Belt magnets, samplers, metal detectors and analysers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2003
Feeders:
Generally (including apron and belt)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2003
Mineral dressing assets:
Magnetic separation assets (including cross belt, drum and disc types)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2003
Coal mining:
Coal preparation assets:
Filtration assets (including belt, drum and vacuum filters)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2003
Infrastructure support assets:
Analysers, belt magnets, grinding mills, metal detectors and samplers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2003
Materials handling assets:
Feeders:
Generally (including apron and belt feeders)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2003
Mineral sand mining:
Filtration/dewatering assets (including candle filter presses, dewatering towers, horizontal belt filters and hydrocyclones)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2003
Magnetic separation assets (including belt and drum separators, electromagnetic separators, induced roll and rare earth magnetic separators and wet high intensity magnets)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2003
MANUFACTURING:
Meat processing:
Boning room assets:
Transfer belt and screw conveyors (incorporating belt, drive motors and supporting structure)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Cold storage assets:
Carton conveyors (incorporating belt, drive motors and supporting structure)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Packaging assets:
Transfer belt conveyors (incorporating belts, drive motors and supporting structures)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Slaughter floor assets:
Offal processing assets:
Offal transfer conveyors (incorporating belts, drives, motors and supporting structure)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Sheep restrainers (incorporating belts, pulleys, drives and motors)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Waste belt conveyors (incorporating drives, motors and supporting structure)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Waste water assets:
Belt filter presses15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2013
Cured meat and smallgoods manufacturing:
Ancillary assets:
Conveyors (including belt loaders, bucket elevators, vibratory feeders etc)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2016
Fruit and vegetable processing:
Fruit juice and fruit juice drink manufacturing assets:
Extraction assets:
Fruit sizing assets (including sizing belts/heads and sorting tables)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2010
Support assets:
Conveyors (including augers, belt conveyors and bucket elevators)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Oil and fat manufacturing:
Edible oil or fat, blended, modified, refined or solvent extracted manufacturing assets (including canola, safflower, soybean):
Measuring and monitoring assets:
Belt weighers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Grain mill product manufacturing:
Flour milling assets:
Product and raw material handling and receiving assets:
Conveyors (including belt, chain, drag, screw)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2017
Cereal and pasta product manufacturing:
Cereal food manufacturing assets:
Ready-to-eat cereal manufacturing assets (including extruded, co-extruded, flaked and puffed cereal manufacturing assets):
Dryers:
Others (including belt and coating dryers)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2008
Product and raw material receiving and handling assets:
Conveyors (including belt, bucket, roller and screw conveyors)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2008
Bakery product manufacturing (non-factory based):
Sugar milling assets:
Power generation assets:
Ash filters (including rotary and horizontal belt vacuum filters)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2011
Support assets:
Conveyor belt weighers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2011
Panning assets:
Belt panners15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2016
Prepared animal and bird feed manufacturing:
Pet food manufacturing assets:
Raw material receiving, storage and handling assets:
Conveyors (including belt, chain, drag, screw and walking beam conveyors)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2013
Screw and weigh belt feeders10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Prepared animal and bird feed manufacturing assets generally:
Raw material receiving, storage and handling assets:
Conveyors (including belt, drag, grain and screw conveyors)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Portable conveying assets (including augers and belt conveyors)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2012
Other food product manufacturing n.e.c.:
Coffee processing assets:
Material handling assets (including augers, belt conveyors, bucket elevators, elevators and vibratory conveyors)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Frozen pre-prepared food manufacturing assets (including frozen appetisers and finger foods such as dim sims and spring rolls, frozen french fries/potato chips, frozen pizzas and frozen pre-prepared meals):
Ancillary and support assets:
Conveyors (including auger conveyors, belt conveyors, bucket elevators, flume conveyors roller conveyors, web conveyors etc)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Peanut processing assets:
Materials handling assets (including augers, belt conveyors, bucket elevators, elevators and vibratory conveyors)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2009
Sampling assets:
Sieve tables and picking belt decks20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2009
Tea processing assets:
Materials handling assets (including augers, belt conveyors, bucket elevators, vibratory conveyors, structures, gearboxes and motors)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Soft drink, cordial and syrup manufacturing:
Ice manufacturing assets (excluding dry ice manufacturing assets):
Support assets:
Conveyors (including elevators, conveyors and belts)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2016
Plywood and veneer manufacturing:
Materials handling assets (including belt, chain and screw conveyors)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2005
Reconstituted wood product manufacturing:
Materials handling assets (including belt, chain and screw conveyors)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2005
Basic organic chemical manufacturing:
Ethanol manufacturing assets:
Feedstock handling and storage assets:
Grain assets:
Conveyor belt weighers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Conveyors (including belt, drag and screw conveyors, bucket and rake elevators and chutes)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Basic inorganic chemical manufacturing:
Ammonium nitrate manufacturing assets:
Ammonium nitrate prill manufacturing assets:
Distribution, handling and storage assets:
Conveyor belt weighers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2013
Salt manufacturing and refining assets:
Belt weighers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2022
Cement manufacturing:
Storage, handling and packing assets:
Conveyor systems (mechanical and pneumatic types incorporating structures, moving media, gearboxes, motors, fans, feeders, flowgates, feed valves and weighers):
Mechanical:
Belt, screw, drag chain, apron/pan conveyors15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2011
Plaster product manufacturing:
Plasterboard and cornice manufacturing assets:
General:
Conveyors (including belt conveyors, belt stacker conveyors, bucket elevators and screw conveyors)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2011
Plasterboard/cornice plant assets:
Forming line assets (including belt conveyors and roller conveyors)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2011
Iron smelting and steel manufacturing:
Basic oxygen steelmaking (BOS) and electric arc furnace (EAF) steel making assets:
Flux making assets:
Lime kiln discharge conveyors (incorporating structures, belts, pulleys, motors and gearboxes)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Grinders (incorporating motors, drive pullies and belts, drive shafts, roller crusher units and whizzer separators)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Materials handling assets:
Conveyor systems (incorporating structures, belts, gearboxes and motors)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Blast furnace assets:
Materials handling assets:
Furnace charging conveyor systems (incorporating structures, belts, gearboxes and motors)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Coke making assets:
Coke ovens gas by-products assets:
Sulphate plant assets:
Feed tanks, evaporators, centrifuge units, conveyors (including belts, structures, drives and chutes, jet condensers, hot water tanks, driers including chutes, drives, and support structures, pumps, vibrating screens, cyclones, and scraper conveyors)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2009
Materials handling assets:
Conveyor systems (incorporating structures, belts, gearboxes and motors)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2009
Hot strip mill assets:
Skin pass mill assets:
Tension reels and belt wrappers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Pellet making assets:
Materials handling assets:
Conveyor systems (incorporating structures, belts, gearboxes and motors):
Conveyors to and from balling drums20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Filter cake conveyors20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Finished pellet conveyor20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Primary metal product casting assets:
Materials handling assets:
Conveyor systems (including structures, belts, gearboxes and motors)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Sinter making assets:
Materials handling assets:
Belt weighers5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2009
Conveyor systems (incorporating structures, belts, gearboxes and motors)17 years11.76%5.88%1 Jul 2009
Non-ferrous metal casting:
Metal casting assets (non-ferrous e.g. aluminium, brass and magnesium):
Machining/finishing assets:
Linishing belt machines10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Steel coil roll forming, slitting and blanking and sheet metal forming:
Steel coil roll forming assets:
Support assets:
Conveyors:
Gravity feed conveyors (incorporating belts, rollers and frames)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Motorised conveyors (incorporating gearboxes, belts, rollers, bearings, motors, frames and controls)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Steel coil slitting assets:
Conveyors:
Gravity feed conveyors (incorporating belts, rollers and frames)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Motorised conveyors (incorporating gearboxes, belts, rollers, bearings, motors, frames and controls)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Scrap chopper conveyors (incorporating gearboxes, belts, rollers, bearings, motors, frames and controls)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Motor vehicle manufacturing:
Bus and truck manufacturing assets (including bus vehicle body assembling assets and truck body manufacturing assets):
Handling assets:
Conveyors:
Floor and in-floor conveyors (including belt conveyors, skid conveyors, skillet conveyors, slat conveyors, turntables etc)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2011
Motor car engine assembly and manufacturing assets:
Handling assets:
Conveyors:
Floor and in-floor standalone conveyors (including belt conveyors, infeed and outfeed conveyors)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Wooden furniture and upholstered seat manufacturing:
Tools:
Stationary machines:
Sanders (including belt sanders, drum sanders, edge sanders, spindle sanders etc)12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2022
ELECTRICITY, GAS, WATER AND WASTE SERVICES:
Sewerage and drainage services:
Sewage treatment assets:
Sludge processing assets:
Sludge dewatering assets:
Belt presses15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2005
Waste remediation and materials recovery services:
Materials recovery facility (MRF) assets:
Conveyors and conveyor systems:
Conveyors generally ((incorporating belt, drive, motors and supporting structure) including walking floor conveyors)9 years22.22%11.11%1 Jul 2014
Feed hoppers (incorporating steel drag chain, conveyor belt, metering feed roller, motor and gearbox)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2014
TRANSPORT, POSTAL AND WAREHOUSING:
Water transport and support services:
Port assets:
Intermodal facilities:
Receival station assets (including belt feeder, hopper and tippler)30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2002
Scenic and sightseeing transport:
Monocable circulating detachable, reversible and fixed ropeway assets operated in non-snowfield areas:
Transportation systems (incorporating drives and belts)3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jul 2009
Airport operations and other air transport support services:
Airport assets:
Baggage handling assets:
Baggage outbound conveyor systems (incorporating belts, diverters, gearboxes, motors, ploughs, rollers, structures and tag readers)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2003
Baggage reclaim conveyor systems (incorporating belts, gearboxes, motors, rollers and structures)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2003
HEALTH CARE AND SOCIAL ASSISTANCE:
Retirement village and accommodation for the aged operation:
Assistance and medical assets:
Walking belts3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jul 2019

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Source: TR 2022/1