ATO Depreciation Rates 2023

Table A
NameEffective LifeDiminishing Value RatePrime Cost RateDate of Application
AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHING:
Dairy cattle farming:
Clean up assets:
Hot water services10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2016
MINING:
Oil and gas extraction:
Assets used to manufacture condensate, crude oil, domestic gas, liquid natural gas (LNG) or liquid petroleum gas (LPG) but not if the manufacture occurs in an oil refinery
Hot water system assets17 ½ years11.43%5.71%1 Jul 2002
MANUFACTURING:
Meat processing:
Water assets:
Hot water systems10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Fruit and vegetable processing:
Fruit juice and fruit juice drink manufacturing assets:
Packing assets:
Hot melt adhesive (spot glue) applicators10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2010
Soft drink, cordial and syrup manufacturing:
Tanks:
Hot water25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2009
Beer manufacturing (except non-alcoholic beer):
Tanks:
Hot service storage25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2008
Wine and other alcoholic beverage manufacturing:
Support assets:
Hot water systems10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2008
Reconstituted wood product manufacturing:
Presses (including pre-press, hot and cold presses)25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jan 2005
Rigid and semi-rigid polymer product manufacturing:
Offset rollers, hot stamping machines, ink jet coders and printers and indent printers5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2016
Glass and glass product manufacturing:
Container glass and flat (float) glass manufacturing assets:
Coating assets (cold and hot end)12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2008
Glass product manufacturing assets:
Automotive glass product manufacturing assets:
Post-processing assets used in automotive laminated glass production and toughened glass production processes:
Others (including conveyor handling assets, encapsulation presses, hot melt adhesive applicators, robots and tooling)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2009
Cement manufacturing:
Drying assets:
Hot gas generators15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2011
Plaster product manufacturing:
Plasterboard and cornice manufacturing assets:
General:
Fans/blowers (excluding blowers used with hot pits)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2011
Plaster milling assets:
Hot pits:
Blowers12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2011
Vessels20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2011
Concrete product manufacturing:
Concrete roof tile manufacturing assets:
Applicator batching assets (including hoppers, mixers and tanks, but excluding batching assets for anti-scuff hot glue/max applicators and oil applicators)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Applicators:
Anti-scuff hot glue/wax10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2012
Iron smelting and steel manufacturing:
Assets used in common in iron smelting and steel manufacturing processes:
Control systems assets:
Instruments (including temperature probes, control panels, gas analysers, location sensors, carbon monoxide monitors, pressure controls, temperature controls, pyrometers, strip position sensors, gamma ray detectors, hot metal detectors, x-ray gauges, width gauges, thickness gauges)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2010
Basic oxygen steelmaking (BOS) and electric arc furnace (EAF) steel making assets:
Hot metal pots20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Blast furnace assets:
Hot blast system assets:
Cold blast mains (incorporating snorts and mixer valves)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Hot blast mains (incorporating bustle mains, back draught mains and tuyere stock)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Stoves (incorporating refractory, shell, foundations, fan and valves)30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2010
Stoves mixed gas main systems15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Coke making assets:
Coke ovens batteries assets:
Hot car spur lines30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2009
Hot cars (incorporating locomotive, wagon, tray and bogies)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2009
Coke ovens gas by-products assets:
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
Hot strip mill assets:
Coil and slab weighers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Coil box and crop shear assets:
Coil boxes (incorporating side guard drives and transfer mechanism assemblies)8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2010
Coil box shear and scale breakers17 years11.76%5.88%1 Jul 2010
Crop shears (incorporating assemblies and main drive motors)17 years11.76%5.88%1 Jul 2010
Crop shear maintenance jigs and pinch rolls15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Transfer bed oxy cutting stations15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Coil handling assets:
Cooling tunnel conveyors13 years15.38%7.69%1 Jul 2010
Cooling tunnel ventilation fans10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2010
Marking machines15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
De-scaling systems (incorporating scale breakers, nozzles, pipe works, valves and high pressure pumps)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2010
Down coiler assets (including coilers (incorporating side guards, mandrel, mandrel drives, wrappers and unit roll drives))15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Finishing mill assets:
Finishing mill flumes20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Finishing mills (incorporating mill stands, side guides, strippers, screw downs, drive shafts, pinion boxes, main drive motors, transformers, loopers, grease systems, oil circulation systems, and hydraulic systems)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Laminar flow cooling systems15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Mill roll shop assets:
Bearing washing machines10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2010
Chuck changers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Floor plate or checker plate machines15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Roll grinders15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Roll lathes20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Roll racks and sleds20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Reversing roughing mill assets:
Reversing roughing mills (incorporating mill stands, entry side guards, delivery side guards, main drive motors and hydraulic systems)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Vertical edgers (incorporating drive motors, gearboxes and edger adjustments)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Roll changing assets20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Scale scrapers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Skin pass mill assets:
Skin pass mills (incorporating mill entry assets,gap control and auxiliary hydraulics, main drive motors, payoff reel, un-coiler mandrels and re-coiler mandrels)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Tension reels and belt wrappers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Laser systems mill entry5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2010
Slab tracking systems5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2010
Strapping machines (including radial and circumferential)13 years15.38%7.69%1 Jul 2010
Walking beam furnace assets:
Air dilution manifolds20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Air ducts10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2010
Coke ovens gas systems15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Cold combustion air systems20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Dilution blowers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2010
Extractors10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2010
Furnaces (incorporating structure, charging machines with synchronising drive trains, refractories, walking beam floors, furnace hydraulic systems, and charge and discharge doors)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Nitrogen purge systems15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Tracking lasers (incorporating cables and adapters)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2010
Plate mill assets:
Hot levellers (incorporating motors, gearboxes, spindles, rolls, leveller AGC capsules, screws, crowning device, de-scaling header and valves)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Aluminium smelting:
Materials handling assets:
Anode transport vehicles and hot metal carriers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2003
Motor vehicle manufacturing:
Metal stamping and blanking assets:
Maintenance workshop and tool room assets:
Washing machines and tanks (including ultrasonic cleaners/washers and other hot solvent small parts washing assets)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Motor car engine assembly and manufacturing assets:
Engine function testing assets (including cold test machines, engine dynamometers, engine ignition testing machines and hot test machines)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2012
Toolroom assets:
Washing machines and tanks (including ultrasonic cleaners/washers and other hot solvent small parts washing assets)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
RETAIL TRADE:
Hot food display assets (including bain marie)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2005
Fuel retailing:
Convenience store assets:
Hot food display assets (including bain maries)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2010
Hot water systems10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2010
Supermarket and grocery stores:
Deli Assets:
Hot food display assets (including bain marie, hot boxes and pie warmers)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2020
Support and other assets:
Hot water systems (excluding piping)12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2020
ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD SERVICES:
Accommodation:
Hot water systems (excluding commercial boilers and piping)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2005
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 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2005
Food preparation and service assets:
Hot food display assets (including bain marie)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2005
TRANSPORT, POSTAL AND WAREHOUSING:
Road transport:
Motor vehicles and trailers:
Trailers having a gross vehicle mass of 4.5 tonnes or less:
Aluminium, galvanised steel, galvanised hot dipped steel and powder coated trailers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2015
Rail freight and passenger transport services:
Infrastructure assets:
Signalling assets (including axle detectors, block signals, dragging equipment detector, hot boxes, interlockings, level crossings, and train control and train describer)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2002
Water transport and support services:
Support assets (acquired separately from the vessel):
Hot water units:
Domestic5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2009
Marine10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2009
Scenic and sightseeing transport:
Hot air balloon ride operation assets:
Flight instruments10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Hot air balloon assets:
Baskets6 years33.33%16.67%1 Jul 2013
Burners10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Envelopes5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2013
Fuel cylinders and tanks (incorporating shut off valves)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2013
Inflator fans15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2013
INFORMATION MEDIA AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS:
Electronic information storage services:
Aisle containments (including hot aisle containments (HAC), cold aisle containments (CAC))15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2017
RENTAL, HIRING AND REAL ESTATE SERVICES:
Residential property operators:
Assets generally:
Hot water systems (excluding piping):
Electric12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2004
Gas12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2004
Solar15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2004
Non-residential property operators:
Commercial office building assets:
Hot water installations (excluding commercial boilers and piping)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2005
PROFESSIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SERVICES:
Scientific testing and analysis services:
Mineral processing and metallurgical laboratory assets:
Laboratory analytical equipment and instruments:
Hot blocks7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
HEALTH CARE AND SOCIAL ASSISTANCE:
Pathology and diagnostic imaging services:
Radiologists' diagnostic imaging assets:
Nuclear medicine systems (incorporating cameras, gantries, collimators, integrated computers, integrated software and hot lab equipment, but excluding Positron Emission Tomography (PET) systems)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2002
Retirement village and accommodation for the aged operation:
Common area assets:
Hot water dispensers8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2019
Support assets:
Hot water systems (excluding commercial boilers and piping)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Kitchen assets:
Hot food display and warming assets (including bain marie, banquet units, buffet units, hot boxes, plate warmers)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
OTHER SERVICES:
Hairdressing and beauty services:
Beauty industry assets:
Sterilisation processing assets (including autoclaves and hot towel cabinets)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2010
Laundry and dry cleaning services:
Support assets:
Hot water systems12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2011
Table B
NameEffective LifeDiminishing Value RatePrime Cost RateDate of Application
Motor vehicles and trailers:
Trailers having a gross vehicle mass of 4.5 tonnes or less:
Aluminium, galvanised steel, galvanised hot dipped steel and powder coated trailers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2015

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Source: TR 2022/1