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:
Planting assets:
Potato cutters15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2007
Fruit and tree nut growing:
Fruit growing assets:
Pruning assets:
Mechanical pruning assets (including cutter bars and cane strippers, but excluding vine leaf removers)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2008
Sheep farming:
Woolshed assets:
Grinding machines for sharpening cutters30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jan 2007
MANUFACTURING:
Meat processing:
Slaughter floor assets:
Head cutters and droppers:
Automatic10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Hand held hydraulic5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2013
Hock cutters5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2013
Poultry processing:
Cut up & portion cutting assets:
Dicers, flatteners and portion cutters (including air, bowl, vacuum, vertical, water jet etc)6 years33.33%16.67%1 Jul 2017
Evisceration equipment:
Croppers, feet removers, giblet processors, head removers, heart lung harvesters, heart lung separators, openers, vent cutters etc)11 years18.18%9.09%1 Jul 2017
Cured meat and smallgoods manufacturing:
Production assets generally for bacon, ham, meat emulsion products, smallgoods etc (including band saws, cookers, cutters, deboning machines, dicing machines, emulsifiers, filling machines, grinding machines, guillotines, injecting machines, massaging machines, meat pumps, microwave cooking tunnels, mixing machines, netting machines, pump grinders, sausage linkers, shredders, tumbling machines etc)12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2016
Dairy product manufacturing:
Assets for cheese manufacturing:
Cheese cutting machines (including cutters, grinders, shredders and slicers)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2017
Bakery product manufacturing:
Baking assets used by large-scale manufacturers of biscuits, bread, cakes, pastries and pies:
Make-up assets (including croissant making machines, crumpet making machines, crumbers, cutters, depositors, dividers, dough pumps, dough piece check weighers, extruders, final moulder/panners, first/intermediate provers, gauge rolls, laminators, meat cookers, meat extruders, moulders, muffin making machines, pie making machines, roll making machines, rounder/airflow handers, sheeters and stampers)12 ½ years16.00%8.00%1 Jan 2002
Bakery product manufacturing (non-factory based):
Sugar milling assets:
Support assets:
Laboratory assets:
Cutter grinders15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2011
Support assets:
Cutters and guillotines12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2016
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):
Frozen lasagne manufacturing assets generally (including cookers, cutters, depositors, extruders, lasagne making machines, mixers and sheeters)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Frozen pizza manufacturing assets:
Pizza base making assets:
Pizza base forming and sheeting assets (including chunking units, cutters, extruders, laminators, spiker rollers etc)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Frozen potato product manufacturing assets (including french fries/potato chips, potato flake, potato shred and shred product manufacturing assets):
Processing assets generally:
Cutters:
Mechanical cutters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2012
Water based (hydro) cutters15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Printing:
Flexographic printing assets:
Printing assets:
Die cutters, flexo/folder/gluers (see Table A Pulp, paper and converted paper product manufacturing (15100, 15210, 15220 and 15290), box and carton making assets)
Screen printing assets:
Ancillary assets:
Squeegee cutters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Printing support services:
Post-press (finishing) trade services assets:
Die cutters15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2006
Rigid and semi-rigid polymer product manufacturing:
Pipe cutters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2016
Glass and glass product manufacturing:
Container glass and flat (float) glass manufacturing assets:
Flat glass ribbon cutting assets (including cross cutters, longitudinal cutters and snap rolls)25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2008
Glass product manufacturing assets:
Automotive glass product manufacturing assets:
CNC controlled scorers and cutters15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2009
Ceramic product manufacturing:
Clay brick and paver manufacturing assets:
Cutters15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2011
Concrete product manufacturing:
Prefabricated concrete product manufacturing assets:
Steel cutters and benders7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2013
Iron smelting and steel manufacturing:
Primary metal product casting assets:
Cut to length machines and torch cutters15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Boiler, tank and other heavy gauge metal container manufacturing:
Sheet metal tanks manufacturing assets:
Laser cutters7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2012
Motor vehicle manufacturing:
Bus and truck manufacturing assets (including bus vehicle body assembling assets and truck body manufacturing assets):
Press shop assets:
Plasma cutters15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2011
Metal stamping and blanking assets:
Maintenance workshop and tool room assets:
Cutting machines (including gas cutters and plasma cutting machines)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2012
Railway rolling stock manufacturing and repair services:
Assembly assets:
Cutting assets (including plate profilers, profile cutters and saws)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Maintenance and refurbishment assets:
Cutting assets (including guillotines, plasma cutters and profilers)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2014
Aircraft manufacturing and repair services:
Carbon fibre cutters used in manufacturing10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2020
Wooden furniture and upholstered seat manufacturing:
Upholstery assets:
CNC fabric cutters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2022
Hand fabric cutters5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2022
RETAIL TRADE:
Supermarket and grocery stores:
Deli Assets:
Cheese cutters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2020
OTHER SERVICES:
Automotive repair and maintenance:
Automotive and heavy vehicle repair and maintenance assets:
Pipe and tube saws and cutters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2011
Other machinery and equipment repair and maintenance:
Agriculture, construction and mining heavy machinery and equipment repair and maintenance assets:
Workshop assets:
Plasma cutters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2015
Welding assets:
Welders (including ARC, MIG, TIG, multi process and oxy-acetylene welders/cutters)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2015
Funeral, crematorium and cemetery services:
Funeral assets:
Engravers:
Electronic/laser cutters7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2020
Photographic film processing:
Framing assets:
Board and glass wall cutters12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2017
Mat cutters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2017
Vinyl cutters5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2017
Printing assets:
Laser cutters (incorporating laser printing):
Desktop3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jul 2017
Floor mounted7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2017
Table B
NameEffective LifeDiminishing Value RatePrime Cost RateDate of Application
Welders:
Oxygen welders and cutters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014

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Source: TR 2022/1