ATO Depreciation Rates 2023

Table A
NameEffective LifeDiminishing Value RatePrime Cost RateDate of Application
AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHING:
Poultry hatcheries:
Condensers/heat exchangers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
MANUFACTURING:
Meat processing:
Cold storage assets:
Ammonia condensers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Rendering plant:
Environmental control equipment (including condensers and associated equipment, bio-filters, air-scrubbers, after-burners and dissolved air flotation systems)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Fruit and vegetable processing:
Fruit juice and fruit juice drink manufacturing assets:
Support assets:
Refrigeration assets (including compressors, cooling towers, condensers and pumps)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):
Preparatory and extraction assets:
Solvent extraction system assets:
Distillation system assets (incorporating distillation columns, steam economisers, condensers, evaporators and oil strippers)30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2012
Solvent water separation system assets (incorporating condensers, solvent water separators, steam ejectors and solvent receivers)30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2012
Margarine and shortening processing assets:
Refrigeration assets (including compressors, condensers, evaporators and pumps)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Grain mill product manufacturing:
Malt manufacturing assets:
Refrigeration assets (including chillers, compressors, condensers, evaporative coolers and pumps)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2008
Bakery product manufacturing (non-factory based):
Sugar milling assets:
Evaporation and crystallisation assets:
Vapour condensers:
Mild steel20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2011
Stainless steel30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2011
Sugar refining assets:
Evaporation and crystallisation assets:
Vapour condensers:
Mild steel20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2011
Stainless steel30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2011
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:
Chilled water systems generally (including chillers, condensers and cooling towers)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Soft drink, cordial and syrup manufacturing:
Ice manufacturing assets (excluding dry ice manufacturing assets):
Condensers and cooling towers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2016
Support assets:
Refrigeration assets (including compressors, cooling towers, condensers, evaporators and pumps)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2009
Beer manufacturing (except non-alcoholic beer):
Support assets:
Refrigeration assets (including compressors, condensers, evaporators and pumps)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2008
Vapour condensers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2008
Spirit manufacturing:
Distillation assets
Laboratory and testing assets (including alcoholmeters, alcolyzers, density meters, gas chromatographs, Graham condensers, homogenisers, hydrometers, Inland Revenue condensers and sugar testers)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2018
Stainless steel stills (continuous/vacuum stills, marc stills producing grape spirit, neutral spirit or potable ethanol [incorporating analyser/stripping columns, purifier columns, rectifying columns, condensers and dephlegmators/reflux condensers and methanol/fusel oil isolators])25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2018
Stills generally (copper stills, pot stills, spirit stills and wash stills [incorporating botanical baskets, condensers, head tubes/necks, rectifiers, rectifying columns and still columns])15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2018
Pulp, paper and converted paper product manufacturing:
Pulp and paper mill assets:
Auxiliary assets (including agitators, blowers/fans conveyors, heat exchangers and condensers, pipes and pumps)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2002
Industrial gas manufacturing:
Industrial gas - general manufacturing assets:
Air and gas cooling and heating assets:
Moisture condensers20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2011
Industrial gas - manufacturing assets for specific gases:
Acetylene manufacturing assets (carbide process):
Acetylene purification assets (including cooling condensers, driers, purifier vessels and scrubbers)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2011
Carbon dioxide (C02) manufacturing assets:
Liquefaction assets (including condensers, condensate receivers and separators)25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2011
Basic organic chemical manufacturing:
Ethanol manufacturing assets:
Distillation and purification assets:
Molecular sieve adsorption systems (incorporating condensers, control systems, coolers, heaters, molecular sieves, pumps, tanks and vacuum equipment)25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2012
Support and other assets:
Vapour condensers20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2012
Basic inorganic chemical manufacturing:
Ammonia manufacturing assets:
Conversion and liquefaction assets:
Chillers, condensers, flash drums, receivers and separators25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2013
Distribution, handling and storage assets:
Ammonia storage tank refrigeration systems (incorporating compressors, condensers, flash drums and receivers)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2013
Ammonium nitrate manufacturing assets:
Nitric acid manufacturing assets:
Conversion and absorption assets:
Cooler condensers:
Zirconium25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2013
Other10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Iron smelting and steel manufacturing:
Coke making assets:
Coke ovens gas by-products assets:
Ammonia plant assets:
Ammonia incinerators, ammonia stills, tanks, decanters, pumps, condensers (including support structures, stacks)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2009
Benzine, toluene and xylene plant assets:
Distillation columns, dephlegorators, pumps, tanks, coolers, condensers and pre heaters30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2009
Napthalene plant assets:
Sludge tanks, pre heaters, distillation columns, tanks, decanters, condensers, and pumps35 years5.71%2.86%1 Jul 2009
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
RETAIL TRADE:
Refrigeration assets:
Generally (including blast chillers, condensers, evaporators, refrigeration cabinets, standalone freezers and standalone refrigerators)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Supermarket and grocery stores:
Refrigeration and freezing assets:
Compressors, condensers and evaporators10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2020
ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD SERVICES:
Cafes, restaurants, takeaway food services, pubs, taverns, bars and clubs (hospitality):
Refrigeration assets:
Generally (including blast chillers, condensers, evaporators, refrigeration cabinets, standalone freezers and standalone refrigerators)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Table B
NameEffective LifeDiminishing Value RatePrime Cost RateDate of Application
Refrigeration assets:
Compressors, condensers, evaporators etc15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2014

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Source: TR 2022/1