ATO Depreciation Rates 2023

Table A
NameEffective LifeDiminishing Value RatePrime Cost RateDate of Application
AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHING:
Agriculture:
Grain, cotton, peanut and rice assets:
Precision farming assets (including GPS, controllers, lightbars, variable rate technology assets, but excluding hydraulic automated steering)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2007
Sheep farming:
Crutching machines, portable type10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Dipping and spraying assets for parasite control:
Jet spray system assets (including the race or handler dedicated to the jet spray system)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Mobile plunge dips5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2007
Feeders (including grain feeders, oat feeders, hay feeders)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Footbaths10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Instruments for measuring backfat or eye muscle or detecting pregnancy, ultrasound type (incorporating probe and monitor)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2007
Instruments for measuring wool fibre fineness, laser type10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Sheep handling assets (including autodrafter, conveyor, cradle, crate, crutching trailer, elevator, ewe lifter, handler, hydraulic lift, rollover unit, shearing table, weigh crate, winch used to lift sheep)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Weigh bars, weigh indicators and weigh platforms10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Yards, races, leadup systems and loading ramps:
Permanent types40 years5.00%2.50%1 Jan 2007
Portable types25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jan 2007
Woolshed assets:
Grinding machines for sharpening cutters30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jan 2007
Shearing machines30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jan 2007
Shearing or crutching handpieces10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Wool bale movers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Wool presses20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Wool tables, steel types20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Woolsheds and shearing sheds50 years4.00%2.00%1 Jan 2007
Beef cattle farming:
Cattle handling assets:
Calf cradles10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Cattle crushes (hydraulic and manual)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
NLIS and other readers5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2007
Scales, weigh indicators and loading bars5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2007
Cattle yards (including races and coolers (steel and timber)):
Permanent types30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jan 2007
Portable types20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Feed bins (including hay racks)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Feed handling assets:
Bale feeders10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Feed mixers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Silage and feedout wagons10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Loading ramps20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Manure and fertiliser spreaders10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Saddlery and harness10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Grain-sheep or grain-beef cattle farming:
Cereal grain growing assets - see Table A Agriculture (01110 to 01990)
Dairy cattle farming:
Automatic calf feeders10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2016
Barn fed dairy farms:
Bulk and segregated commodity storage facilities (incorporating bunkers)30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2007
Exercise yards20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2007
Feeding barns and maternity barns (incorporating cow beds, fans, and feed alleys)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2007
Cattle handling assets:
Air operated gates10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2007
All terrain vehicles (ATVs)3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jul 2007
Automatic drafting systems7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2007
Automatic ID systems7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2007
Automatic weighing systems and cattle scales5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2007
Backing gates15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2007
Calf cradles10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2007
Cattle crushes (including automatic)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2016
Cattle laneways30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2007
Cattle yards (including loading ramps)30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2007
Dairy milking sheds30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2007
Dairy yards and races20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2007
Teat spraying systems:
Automatic7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2007
Manual10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2007
Clean up assets:
High pressure pumps and hoses10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2007
Hot water services10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2016
Milk line washing systems:
Automatic10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2007
Manual10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2007
Feed milling and handling assets:
Augers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2007
Conveyors and elevators15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2007
Feed mixers7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2007
Feed pads and bunkers30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2007
Feeding systems:
Automatic12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2007
Manual15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2007
Grain mills (including roller mills, disc mills and hammer mills)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2007
Manure spreaders10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2007
Silage pits40 years5.00%2.50%1 Jul 2007
Silage wagons10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2007
Silos (steel)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2007
Telescopic handlers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2007
Tub grinders7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2007
Milking and milk handling assets:
Automatic cluster removers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2007
Bailing systems:
Herringbone (including swing over, double up and rapid exit)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2007
Rotary15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2007
Walk through15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2007
Filters15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2016
Milking systems (incorporating clusters, swing over arms, hoses, pipes, pulsators, vacuum pumps, variable speed control)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2007
Milk meters and recording jars (including conductivity sensors)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2007
Milk vats25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2016
Plate coolers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2007
Receivers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2007
Refrigeration compressors10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2007
Robotic milking system assets:
Air compressors5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2016
Automated milking systems:
Rotary10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2016
Single box and multi box10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2016
Automatic feeding systems10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2016
Automatic footbaths8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2016
Control systems (excluding personal computers) - see Table B Control systems and control system assets
Cow comfort systems:
Cow brushes3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jul 2016
Rubber matting7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2016
Cow identification systems (including weights, bands, numbers and transponders)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2016
Cow traffic systems7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2016
Milk chillers/plate coolers/energy recovery systems10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2016
Vacuum pumps7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2016
Poultry farming for breeding, eggs and meat:
Animal housing environmental control assets:
Control systems (excluding personal computers)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Curtains:
Baffles, brooders10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Sidewalls5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2007
Tunnel inlets10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Evaporative cooling systems (including frames, pipes, pumps, tanks and coolpads)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Foggers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Heaters15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Minimum vents (including cabling)12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jan 2007
Sensors4 years50.00%25.00%1 Jan 2007
Tunnel inlet panels15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Ventilation fans:
Exhaust fans (tunnel, minivent)12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jan 2007
Stirrer fans15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Animal housing structures (incorporating frames, walls, rooves, insulation, doors, floors and lighting)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Cages (for egg layers)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Egg belt systems (under cage/nest housing) (including belts, rollers, tensioners and drive units)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Egg conveyors (including drive units)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Egg counters15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Egg elevators (including drive units)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Egg grading and packing assets:
Egg grader and packing systems (including box erectors, box sealers, candling machines, conveyors, crack, dirt, leak and blood detectors, denesters (egg inners and trays), egg loaders, egg oilers, egg tray stackers, egg washers, egg weigher and transfer systems, imprinters (egg and box), packers (inners, trays and boxes) and wrappers)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Pallet levellers (coil spring)25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jan 2007
Palletisers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Trolley lifters15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Farm trolleys:
Chicken transport10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Egg transport10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Feeding systems (including troughs, trolleys, chains, hoppers, pans, tubes with auger and drive units)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Generators (emergency)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Hanging cable systems (for feeders, drinkers and nest housing)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Manure belt systems (under cage/nest housing) (including polypropylene belts, scrapers, rollers, tensioners and drive units)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Manure conveyors (including drive units)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Nest housing (including slatted walkways)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Silos for feed:
Metal20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Ancillary equipment:
Augers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Conveyors and elevators15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Water assets:
Drinking systems (including tubing, nipple drinkers, drinking cups, pressure regulators and filter units)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Winches10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Horse farming:
Horse stalls (Breeze way, Shed row)33 ⅓ years6.00%3.00%1 Jan 2001
Stud stock and thoroughbred horses10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Pig farming:
Animal housing assets:
Animal housing structures (incorporating frames, covers, walls, roof, insulation, shutters and doors)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2008
Curtains - sidewalls10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2008
Floors (suspended types):
Concrete10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2008
Plastic10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2008
Steel5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2008
Control systems (excluding personal computers)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2008
Dry feed systems (incorporating troughs, trolleys, chains, hoppers, pans, tubers with auger and drive units)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2008
Effluent separators/effluent fan extractors10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2008
Evaporative cooling systems (incorporating frames, pipes, pumps, tanks and coolpads)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2008
Fans:
Exhaust (tunnel, minivent)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2008
Stirrer10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2008
Farrowing crates10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2008
Generators (emergency)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2008
Heaters and heat lamps5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2008
High pressure cleaners3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jul 2008
Instruments for measuring backfat or detecting pregnancy, ultrasound types (incorporating probes and monitors)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2008
Liquid feed systems (incorporating feed valves, tanks, pumps, pipelines, mixers and troughs)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2008
Milling assets10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2008
Mixing assets10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2008
Pens (including fences, gates, stalls, farrowing crates, ramps)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2008
Silos:
Grain storage20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2008
Readyfeed10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2008
Tank storage for liquid feed supplements20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2008
Water assets:
Drinking systems (incorporating tubing, nipple drinkers, drinking cups, pressure regulators and filter units)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2008
Effluent tanks (concrete)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2008
Weigh bars, weigh indicators and weigh platforms5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2008
Beekeeping:
Bee farming assets:
Beehives13 years15.38%7.69%1 Jul 2016
Processing assets20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2016
Aquaculture:
Oyster farming assets:
Baskets8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2007
Oyster growing structures (incorporating posts and racks or lines)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2007
Rumblers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2007
Sticks5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2007
Trays:
Plastic8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2007
Timber5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2007
Vats, treatment15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2007

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Source: TR 2022/1