ATO Depreciation Rates 2023

Table A
NameEffective LifeDiminishing Value RatePrime Cost RateDate of Application
MANUFACTURING:
Meat processing:
Cold storage assets:
Air curtains5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2013
Ammonia condensers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Blast freezer tunnels20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2013
Blast freezers20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2013
Carbon dioxide (C02) snow making machines10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Carton conveyors (incorporating belt, drive motors and supporting structure)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Chiller tunnels20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2013
Chillers (incorporating pneumatic gates)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2013
Dehumidifiers:
Desiccant10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Refrigerant15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2013
Door controls and motor drive systems for automatic opening doors (incorporating controls, motors and sensors, but excluding doors)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2013
Evaporators15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2013
Freezers20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2013
Load out bays (incorporating air tight truck pads and hydraulic platforms)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2013
Overhead carcass conveyors (incorporating housings, handles, chains and motors)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2013
Plate freezers20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2013
Pressure vessels20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2013
Refrigeration compressors15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2013
Storage racking and stillages10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Transfer roller conveyors10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Cereal and pasta product manufacturing:
Cereal food manufacturing assets:
Cold formed and nut based cereal bar manufacturing assets:
Cooling tunnels20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2008
Enrobers12 ½ years16.00%8.00%1 Jul 2008
Guillotines15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2008
Slab formers (sheeters)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2008
Slitters15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2008
Spreaders15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2008
Syrup cookers and kettles (including fire cookers)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2008
Tempering machines15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2008
Other food product manufacturing n.e.c.:
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:
Refrigeration and freezing assets:
Insulation panels used in cold stores, cool rooms, freezer rooms etc - see Table B Refrigeration assets
Beer manufacturing (except non-alcoholic beer):
Tanks:
Cold service storage25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2008
Reconstituted wood product manufacturing:
Presses (including pre-press, hot and cold presses)25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jan 2005
Industrial gas manufacturing:
Industrial gas - manufacturing assets for specific gases:
Argon, nitrogen and oxygen manufacturing assets (cryogenic process):
Cold boxes (incorporating distillation columns, expansion valves, heat exchangers, piping, separators and vacuum insulated enclosures)30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2011
Basic inorganic chemical manufacturing:
Ammonia manufacturing assets:
Air and gas reforming and separation assets:
Cryogenic separation process assets:
Cold boxes (incorporating cryogenic distillation columns, expansion valves, heat exchangers, piping, separators and vacuum insulated enclosures)30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2013
Glass and glass product manufacturing:
Container glass and flat (float) glass manufacturing assets:
Coating assets (cold and hot end)12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2008
Iron smelting and steel manufacturing:
Blast furnace assets:
Hot blast system assets:
Cold blast mains (incorporating snorts and mixer valves)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Hot strip mill assets:
Walking beam furnace assets:
Cold combustion air systems20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Plate mill assets:
Cold levellers (incorporating motor, gearbox spindles, hydraulic traverse cylinders, fill-in table rolls, motor, gearbox, rolls and catenaries)30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2010
Tin-plating mill assets:
Cold reduction mills20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2011
Motor vehicle manufacturing:
Bus and truck manufacturing assets (including bus vehicle body assembling assets and truck body manufacturing assets):
Assembly and body shop assets:
Sawing machines (including aluminium cutting saws, bandsaws and cold saws)12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2011
Motor car engine assembly and manufacturing assets:
Engine function testing assets (including cold test machines, engine dynamometers, engine ignition testing machines and hot test machines)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2012
INFORMATION MEDIA AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS:
Electronic information storage services:
Aisle containments (including hot aisle containments (HAC), cold aisle containments (CAC))15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2017
OTHER SERVICES:
Other machinery and equipment repair and maintenance:
Agriculture, construction and mining heavy machinery and equipment repair and maintenance assets:
Workshop assets:
Saws (including band saws and cold cut saws)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2015
Photographic film processing:
Finishing assets:
Laminators:
Cold10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2017
Table B
NameEffective LifeDiminishing Value RatePrime Cost RateDate of Application
Fogging machines (insecticide, including cold foggers and thermal foggers):
Portable6 years33.33%16.67%1 Jul 2013
Vehicle mounted10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013

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Source: TR 2022/1