AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHING: |
Dairy cattle farming: |
Automatic calf feeders | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Barn fed dairy farms: |
Bulk and segregated commodity storage facilities (incorporating bunkers) | 30 years | 6.67% | 3.33% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Exercise yards | 20 years | 10.00% | 5.00% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Feeding barns and maternity barns (incorporating cow beds, fans, and feed alleys) | 20 years | 10.00% | 5.00% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Cattle handling assets: |
Air operated gates | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2007 |
All terrain vehicles (ATVs) | 3 years | 66.67% | 33.33% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Automatic drafting systems | 7 years | 28.57% | 14.29% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Automatic ID systems | 7 years | 28.57% | 14.29% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Automatic weighing systems and cattle scales | 5 years | 40.00% | 20.00% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Backing gates | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Calf cradles | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Cattle crushes (including automatic) | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Cattle laneways | 30 years | 6.67% | 3.33% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Cattle yards (including loading ramps) | 30 years | 6.67% | 3.33% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Dairy milking sheds | 30 years | 6.67% | 3.33% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Dairy yards and races | 20 years | 10.00% | 5.00% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Teat spraying systems: |
Automatic | 7 years | 28.57% | 14.29% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Manual | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Clean up assets: |
High pressure pumps and hoses | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Hot water services | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Milk line washing systems: |
Automatic | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Manual | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Feed milling and handling assets: |
Augers | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Conveyors and elevators | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Feed mixers | 7 years | 28.57% | 14.29% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Feed pads and bunkers | 30 years | 6.67% | 3.33% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Feeding systems: |
Automatic | 12 years | 16.67% | 8.33% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Manual | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Grain mills (including roller mills, disc mills and hammer mills) | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Manure spreaders | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Silage pits | 40 years | 5.00% | 2.50% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Silage wagons | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Silos (steel) | 20 years | 10.00% | 5.00% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Telescopic handlers | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Tub grinders | 7 years | 28.57% | 14.29% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Milking and milk handling assets: |
Automatic cluster removers | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Bailing systems: |
Herringbone (including swing over, double up and rapid exit) | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Rotary | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Walk through | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Filters | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Milking
systems (incorporating clusters, swing over arms, hoses, pipes,
pulsators, vacuum pumps, variable speed control) | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Milk meters and recording jars (including conductivity sensors) | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Milk vats | 25 years | 8.00% | 4.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Plate coolers | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Receivers | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Refrigeration compressors | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2007 |
Robotic milking system assets: |
Air compressors | 5 years | 40.00% | 20.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Automated milking systems: |
Rotary | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Single box and multi box | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Automatic feeding systems | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Automatic footbaths | 8 years | 25.00% | 12.50% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Control systems (excluding personal computers) - see Table B Control systems and control system assets |
Cow comfort systems: |
Cow brushes | 3 years | 66.67% | 33.33% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Rubber matting | 7 years | 28.57% | 14.29% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Cow identification systems (including weights, bands, numbers and transponders) | 7 years | 28.57% | 14.29% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Cow traffic systems | 7 years | 28.57% | 14.29% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Milk chillers/plate coolers/energy recovery systems | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Vacuum pumps | 7 years | 28.57% | 14.29% | 1 Jul 2016 |
MANUFACTURING: |
Dairy product manufacturing: |
Ancillary and support assets: |
Air compression assets - see Table B Air compression assets |
Ammonia gas detectors | 12 years | 16.67% | 8.33% | 1 Jul 2018 |
Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) | 12 years | 16.67% | 8.33% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Bag and cardboard compactors | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Benches and tables | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Bin and drum tippers | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2018 |
Bins generally: |
Plastic | 8 years | 25.00% | 12.50% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Stainless steel | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Boilers - see Table B Boilers |
Boot washers | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Cages (including cardboard cages and pallet cages) | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Chemical and flammable storage cabinets | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Clean-in-place (CIP) system assets (including pipes, pumps and tanks) | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Contaminant detectors (including magnets, metal detectors and x-ray units) | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Control systems - see Table B Control systems and control system assets |
Conveyors | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Cooling assets: |
Chillers | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Cooling towers | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Crate handling assets (including lifters, stackers and de-stackers, turners etc) | 12 years | 16.67% | 8.33% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Dehumidifiers | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Dock levellers | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Dosing systems | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Dust extractors and collectors | 20 years | 10.00% | 5.00% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Fire control and alarm assets - see Table B Fire control and alarm assets |
Floor scrubbers and polishers | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Foamers | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Infeed water treatment assets (excluding water storage tanks) | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Instrumentation (including flow meters, level transmitters, pressure transmitters etc) | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Laboratory equipment: |
Generally
(excluding penetrometers) - see Table B Laboratory assets used in
quality control, sample checking etc |
Penetrometers | 13 years | 15.38% | 7.69% | 1 Jul 2018 |
Lifting and handling assets: |
Forklifts - see Table B Forklifts |
Hoists | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Lifters (including small bin, box, drum, roll and vacuum lifters) | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Pallet jacks and pallet trucks | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Scissor lifts | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Milk tankers (incorporating tank and trailer) | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Piping, pipelines and pipework | 20 years | 10.00% | 5.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Power transformers | 40 years | 5.00% | 2.50% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Pumps: |
Chemical pumps | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Product pumps | 12 years | 16.67% | 8.33% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Vacuum pumps | 12 years | 16.67% | 8.33% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Water pumps | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Racking | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Refrigeration assets - see Table B Refrigeration assets |
Resin beads for milk and protein processing and water filtration | 5 years | 40.00% | 20.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Scales | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Shelving | 12 years | 16.67% | 8.33% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Silos | 20 years | 10.00% | 5.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Steelwork structures (including ladders, platforms and walkways) | 20 years | 10.00% | 5.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Tanks: |
Chemical storage tanks | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Water storage tanks | 20 years | 10.00% | 5.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Trolleys | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Valves | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Washers (including bottle and crate washers) | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Waste water treatment assets | 20 years | 10.00% | 5.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Water filtration system assets (excluding resin beads) | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Weighbridges | 20 years | 10.00% | 5.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Assets commonly used for product manufacturing and processing: |
Feeders (including loss-in-weight feeders and volumetric feeders) | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Heat exchangers | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Heaters (including air heaters and concentrate heaters) | 20 years | 10.00% | 5.00% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Homogenisers | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Hoppers | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2017 |
In-line moisture meters and moisture controllers | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Membrane filtration system assets | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Mixers and blenders | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Pasteurisers and thermalisers | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Separators, decanters, clarifiers and bactofuges | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Standardisers | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Tanks (including storage, mixing, process and balance tanks) | 20 years | 10.00% | 5.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
UHT aseptic processing system assets | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Valve matrixes | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Assets for butter manufacturing: |
Butter churns (including continuous buttermakers and butter reworkers) | 20 years | 10.00% | 5.00% | 1 Jul 2018 |
Butter melters | 25 years | 8.00% | 4.00% | 1 Jul 2018 |
Crystallisers | 20 years | 10.00% | 5.00% | 1 Jul 2018 |
In-line titrators | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2018 |
Salt crushers | 20 years | 10.00% | 5.00% | 1 Jul 2018 |
Assets for cheese manufacturing: |
Blockformers | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Cheese cutting machines (including cutters, grinders, shredders and slicers) | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Cheese washers | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Continuous cheese making machines | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Cooker stretchers | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Extruders | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Moulding machines | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Moulds: |
Plastic | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Stainless steel | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Presses | 20 years | 10.00% | 5.00% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Vats: |
Cheese making vats | 20 years | 10.00% | 5.00% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Culture vats | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Assets for dairy powder manufacturing: |
Blowers | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Crystallisers | 20 years | 10.00% | 5.00% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Dryers (including fluid bed and spray) | 20 years | 10.00% | 5.00% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Evaporators (including circulation/vacuum chamber and falling film) | 20 years | 10.00% | 5.00% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Powder bins | 20 years | 10.00% | 5.00% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Sifters | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Assets for ice cream manufacturing: |
Blenders and mixers: |
Bench mounted planetary mixers | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2018 |
Hand-held stick blenders | 5 years | 40.00% | 20.00% | 1 Jul 2018 |
Enrobers (including dippers) | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2018 |
Extruders and extrusion line stick inserters | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2018 |
Freezing assets: |
Blast
freezers and freezer tunnels/hardening tunnels (excluding cabinet style
self-contained blast freezers) | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2018 |
Cabinet style self-contained blast freezers | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2018 |
Ice cream churners/freezers | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2018 |
Moulding machines, moulds and moulding line stick inserters | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2018 |
Ovens | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2018 |
Portable batch pasteurisers | 12 years | 16.67% | 8.33% | 1 Jul 2018 |
Slush machines | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2018 |
Assets for yoghurt manufacturing: |
Aerators | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Fruit dosing system assets | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Fermentation tanks | 20 years | 10.00% | 5.00% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Incubation room assets: |
Fans | 4 years | 50.00% | 25.00% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Heaters | 8 years | 25.00% | 12.50% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Insulated sandwich panels | 20 years | 10.00% | 5.00% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Packaging assets: |
Bottle and lid unscramblers | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2018 |
Butter patting machines | 20 years | 10.00% | 5.00% | 1 Jul 2018 |
Cartoning
assets (including carton and case erecting, packing and closing
machines, and carton and box sealers/tapers) | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2018 |
Checkweighers | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Cheese wrapping machines (including overwrappers and thermoforming machines) | 12 years | 16.67% | 8.33% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Debaggers (debagging tables) | 20 years | 10.00% | 5.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Filling
and sealing/capping machines (including various types used in the
industry such as bag, bin, bottle, bulk, can, carton, pouch and tub
filling and sealing/capping machines; form fill and seal machines;
preformed cup filling and sealing machines; seamers and clinchers) | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2018 |
Flow wrappers (including continuous heat seal wrappers) | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2018 |
Inkjet and laser label printers | 7 years | 28.57% | 14.29% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Palletisers and depalletisers | 15 years | 13.33% | 6.67% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Palletising robots | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Product identification labellers (including coding machines and label applicators) | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2016 |
Shrink tunnels | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2017 |
Wrapping machines (including shrink wrappers, stretch wrappers and strapping machines) | 12 years | 16.67% | 8.33% | 1 Jul 2016 |
ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD SERVICES: |
Cafes, restaurants, takeaway food services, pubs, taverns, bars and clubs (hospitality): |
Drink
dispensing machines (including hot water urns, post mix dispensers,
refrigerated and frozen drink dispensers and dairy dispensers, but
excluding beer dispensing systems) | 10 years | 20.00% | 10.00% | 1 Jul 2005 |