ATO Depreciation Rates 2023

Table A
NameEffective LifeDiminishing Value RatePrime Cost RateDate of Application
MANUFACTURING:
Printing:
Digital printing assets (including flatbed digital printers, ink based thermal imaging printers, ink jet printers, spray jet digital printers and toner based printers)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Printing support services:
Pre-press trade services assets:
Platesetters:
Computer-to-plate (CtP) platesetters (including thermal and visible-light platesetters) and Direct-to-plate flexographic platesetters (Computer digital imagers)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Proofers:
Digital and ink-jet proofers5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Glass and glass product manufacturing:
Glass product manufacturing assets:
Digital printing assets:
Digital printers5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2009
Dryers12 ½ years16.00%8.00%1 Jul 2009
Motor vehicle manufacturing:
Motor car engine assembly and manufacturing assets:
Quality control assets generally (including cylinder head thickness testers, digital torque wrenches, gauges, inspection equipment generally, measuring equipment generally, microscopes, scales, scanners, testing equipment generally, thermometers, vibration meters etc)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2012
ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD SERVICES:
Accommodation:
Audio visual entertainment assets (including those used in conference and function rooms (including amplifier, audio speaker, digital disc player, microphone, television sets, turntable, video projection equipment))5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2005
Cafes, restaurants, takeaway food services, pubs, taverns, bars and clubs (hospitality):
Audio visual entertainment assets (including amplifiers, audio speakers, digital disc players, microphones, television sets, turntables and video projection equipment)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2005
TRANSPORT, POSTAL AND WAREHOUSING:
Other transport support services n.e.c.:
Electronic toll collection assets:
Digital measuring instruments (including vehicle classifiers (laser or infrared) and electronic toll collection readers (radio frequency))4 years50.00%25.00%1 Jul 2005
INFORMATION MEDIA AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS:
Motion picture and video activities:
Camera accessories:
Digital or electronic time code slates5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Cameras:
Digital cameras5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Post production sound assets:
Digital audio players and recorders (including CD, DVD, digital audio tape (DAT), mini disc and hard disc players and recorders)3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jan 2006
Digital film projectors5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Digital sound conversion processors (including encoders and decoders)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Post production video assets:
High definition digital film scanners4 years50.00%25.00%1 Jan 2006
Screening theatre assets:
Digital audio players, digital film projectors and digital sound conversion processors5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Sound recording assets:
Digital audio players and recorders (including CD, DVD, digital audio tape (DAT), mini disc and hard disc players and recorders)2 years100.00%50.00%1 Jan 2006
Digital or electronic time code slates5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Radio broadcasting:
Digital audio players and recorders (including CD, DVD, mini disc, hard disc and solid state players and recorders)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2012
Studio based digital audio broadcasting infrastructure (encoding assets etc)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2012
Television broadcasting:
Digital audio players and recorders (including CD players and recorders, digital audio tape (DAT) players, DVD players and recorders, and mini disc players and recorders)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2005
Digital video effects (DVE) units - standalone10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2005
Telecommunications services:
Backbone network assets:
Cross connects (including digital and optical)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2003
FINANCIAL AND INSURANCE SERVICES:
Banking, building society and credit union operations:
Cash handling assets:
Weighing machines (such as coin scales, digital weighing machines, and note scales)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Variable message signs, such as electronic FX boards and digital LED screens - see Table B Advertising signs
RENTAL, HIRING AND REAL ESTATE SERVICES:
Residential property operators:
Assets generally:
Digital peep holes10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Security and monitoring assets:
CCTV systems:
Recorders:
Digital4 years50.00%25.00%1 Jul 2004
PROFESSIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SERVICES:
Scientific research services:
Scientific, medical and pharmaceutical research assets:
Digital cameras3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jul 2014
Surveying and mapping services:
Digital (electronic) levels5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2015
Stereoplotters - digital/softcopy (hardware only)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2015
Theodolites (digital)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2015
Professional photographic services:
Digital cameras:
Compact cameras (including point and shoot cameras)3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jul 2015
Compact system cameras (including bridge cameras, micro four-thirds cameras, mirrorless cameras)3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jul 2015
Medium format single lens reflex (SLR) camera systems (including camera bodies and digital backs)4 years50.00%25.00%1 Jul 2015
SLR cameras (including full-frame SLR cameras)3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jul 2015
HEALTH CARE AND SOCIAL ASSISTANCE:
Hospitals:
Hospital assets:
Angiography assets:
Image acquisition systems (incorporating computers with digital subtraction capability, digital cameras, monitors and integrated software)4 years50.00%25.00%1 Jul 2002
General practice medical services:
Sphygmomanometers (including aneroid and digital)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2020
Thermometers, digital4 years50.00%25.00%1 Jul 2020
Pathology and diagnostic imaging services:
Radiologists' diagnostic imaging assets:
Fluoroscopy assets (excluding direct radiography assets):
Image acquisition systems (incorporating computers, digital cameras, integrated software and monitors)4 years50.00%25.00%1 Jul 2002
Dental services:
Dentists' assets:
Dental x-ray assets:
Digital x-ray systems (including intra-oral storage phosphor plate systems and intra-oral digital sensor systems)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2003
Optometry and optical dispensing:
Optical assets:
Cameras (including anterior segment cameras, retinal cameras, fundus cameras):
Digital4 years50.00%25.00%1 Jan 2004
Telemedicine digital imaging systems (excluding imaging devices)4 years50.00%25.00%1 Jan 2004
Child care services:
Electronic whiteboards (including touch screen interactive digital boards)6 years33.33%16.67%1 Jul 2020
ARTS AND RECREATION SERVICES:
Health and fitness centres and gymnasia operation:
Health and fitness centre operation assets:
Support assets:
Audio visual entertainment assets (including amplifiers, audio speakers, digital disc players and television sets)4 years50.00%25.00%1 Jul 2012
Casino operations:
Gaming signage (including digital displays, jackpot displays, LED/LCD video walls and partitions)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2022
OTHER SERVICES:
Photographic film processing:
Printing assets:
Digital minilabs:
Dry:
Commercial5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2017
Compact3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jul 2017
Wet10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2017
Digital presses5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2017
Large format flatbed digital printers5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2017
Table B
NameEffective LifeDiminishing Value RatePrime Cost RateDate of Application
Advertising signs:
Billboard assets:
Digital LED screens6 years33.33%16.67%1 Jul 2015
Mobile billboard assets:
Digital LED screens4 years50.00%25.00%1 Jul 2015
Wall mounted advertising panels (used in airports, rail concourses and platforms, shopping centres etc):
Digital LED advertising panels5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2015
Digital cameras:
Camera lenses5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2015
Medium format single lens reflex (SLR) system (including camera bodies and digital backs)4 years50.00%25.00%1 Jul 2015
Others3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jul 2015
Employee time and attendance recorders (including bundy clocks, time clocks etc):
Computerised time and attendance recorders (including fingerprint and face recognition systems and swipe card digital time clock systems)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Security and monitoring assets:
CCTV systems:
Recorders:
Digital4 years50.00%25.00%1 Jul 2004
Telephony:
Telephone systems (including analogue and digital telephone systems, PABX/PBX systems, key/commander systems, VoIP systems and hybrid telephone systems such as IP-PBX systems etc)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2015

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Source: TR 2022/1