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:
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
Beef cattle farming:
Cattle handling assets:
Cattle crushes (hydraulic and manual)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Beef cattle feedlots:
Cattle handling assets:
Cattle crushes (hydraulic and manual)6 years33.33%16.67%1 Jan 2007
MINING:
Mineral dressing assets:
Classification, gravity separation and dewatering assets:
Hydraulic classifiers and teetered bed separators20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2003
Surface mobile mining machines:
Hydraulic excavators (including hydraulic front shovels)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2002
Underground mobile mining machines:
Long-wall equipment:
Hydraulic pump modules15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2002
Hydraulic roof supports10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2002
Gold ore mining:
Gold ore processing assets:
Crushing assets:
Hydraulic rock breakers12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2004
Construction material mining:
Hydraulic oversize rock breakers (mounted above primary crusher)8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2003
Other mining support services:
Gas and oil mining support services (excluding offshore services):
Hydraulic fracturing assets:
Blenders8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2018
Frac tanks10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Pumps8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2018
MANUFACTURING:
Meat processing:
Boning room assets:
Saws:
Breaking saws:
Circular hydraulic2 years100.00%50.00%1 Jul 2013
Cold storage assets:
Load out bays (incorporating air tight truck pads and hydraulic platforms)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2013
Livestock handling assets:
Hydraulic forcing pen gates10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Loading ramps stationary and height adjustable (hydraulic, pneumatic and electronic)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2013
Slaughter floor assets:
Head cutters and droppers:
Hand held hydraulic5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2013
Support assets:
Hydraulic power packs10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Oil and fat manufacturing:
Edible oil or fat, blended, modified, refined or solvent extracted manufacturing assets (including canola, safflower, soybean):
Measuring and monitoring assets:
Seed samplers, hydraulic driven10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2012
Bakery product manufacturing (non-factory based):
Retail bread, biscuit, cake and pastry baking assets:
Hydraulic dough dividers7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jan 2002
Soft drink, cordial and syrup manufacturing:
Ice manufacturing assets (excluding dry ice manufacturing assets):
Ice cabinets:
Hydraulic lift trailers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2016
Log sawmilling and timber dressing:
Saw milling equipment:
Green mill plant:
Log debarking plant (includes decks, carriages, hydraulic grabs and fixed cranes, butt reducer, debarker, kicker sorter and bins/pockets)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Rigid and semi-rigid polymer product manufacturing:
Hydraulic power packs12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2016
Hydraulic presses10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2016
Injection moulding machines (incorporating hydraulic power packs but excluding moulds):
Expanded polystyrene and expanded polypropylene moulding machines10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2016
Generally13 years15.38%7.69%1 Jul 2016
Pumps (including hydraulic, water and vacuum)8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2016
Glass and glass product manufacturing:
Glass product manufacturing assets:
Glass handling and storage assets:
Racks (including A-frame racks, hydraulic concertina racks and freefall racks)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2009
Ready-mixed concrete manufacturing:
Truck transit mixers:
Mixers (incorporating barrel, chutes, frame and hydraulic pumps)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2014
Iron smelting and steel manufacturing:
Assets used in common in iron smelting and steel manufacturing processes:
Coil cars (including hydraulic sliding floor plates)13 years15.38%7.69%1 Jul 2010
Basic oxygen steelmaking (BOS) and electric arc furnace (EAF) steel making assets:
Desulphurising lances (incorporating masts, winch control boxes, hydraulic cylinders carriage system, motors, gearboxes, brake lance carriages, lance guides, lances and switches)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2010
Flux making assets:
Kiln contact coolers (including agitator, agitator hydraulic system and rotary valves)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Blast furnace assets:
Cast house assets:
Common hydraulic systems15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Emissions control assets:
Furnace top recovery turbine systems (incorporating hydraulic system, inlet and outlet mains and valves)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Uptakes, bleeders and platforms, downcomers, dust dumping, valves and hydraulics15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Furnace proper assets:
Furnace charging tops (incorporating charging valves and hydraulics)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Coke making assets:
Coke ovens gas by-products assets:
Exhausters (including support structures and hydraulic systems)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2009
Hot strip mill assets:
Finishing mill assets:
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
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
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
Walking beam furnace assets:
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
Plate mill assets:
Cold levellers (incorporating motor, gearbox spindles, hydraulic traverse cylinders, fill-in table rolls, motor, gearbox, rolls and catenaries)30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2010
Edgers (incorporating motors, hydraulic controls, mechanical controls, anvil (carryover table), hand rails and walkways)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Reversing finishing mill (incorporating housing, side guides and covers, guards, motors, drives, spindles, water sprays, gearboxes, screw down, spindles, AGC capsules, hydraulics, mill de-scaling, filler plates, and oil systems within the mill)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Reversing roughing mill (incorporating housing, side guides and covers, guards, motors, drives, spindles, water sprays, gearboxes, screw down, spindles, AGC capsules, hydraulics, mill de-scaling, filler plates, and oil systems within the mill)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Turnover inspection table (incorporating barriers and hydraulics)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Walking beam cooling beds (incorporating carry on section, carry off section, moving (walking) section, chain drives and hydraulics)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Primary metal product casting assets:
Continuous casting machines (incorporating turrets, tundishes (incorporating lids and cassettes), tundish cars, moulds, dummy bars, segments, oscillators, rolls, water sprays, hydraulics, motors and gearboxes):
Billet casters17 years11.76%5.88%1 Jul 2010
Combination casters17 years11.76%5.88%1 Jul 2010
Slab casters17 years11.76%5.88%1 Jul 2010
Hydraulic shears17 years11.76%5.88%1 Jul 2010
Up-enders (including hydraulics)17 years11.76%5.88%1 Jul 2010
Rod, bar, structural and rail mill assets:
Walking beam, natural gas furnaces (incorporating structure, refractories, walking beam floors, furnace hydraulic systems, and charge and discharge doors)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Non-ferrous metal casting:
Metal casting assets (non-ferrous e.g. aluminium, brass and magnesium):
Machining/finishing assets:
Trim presses (hydraulic type and crank type)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2004
Steel coil roll forming, slitting and blanking and sheet metal forming:
Steel coil slitting assets:
Downenders (incorporating conveyors, hydraulics and controls)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2012
Main hydraulic power pack (incorporating interconnecting pipe work to valve stands)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Boiler, tank and other heavy gauge metal container manufacturing:
Sheet metal tanks manufacturing assets:
Hoists:
Hydraulic15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Motor vehicle manufacturing:
Metal stamping and blanking assets:
Maintenance workshop and tool room assets:
Maintenance machines and tool room assets generally (including boring machines, folding machines, grinding machines, guillotines, hydraulic benders and presses, lapping machines, lathes, milling machines, NC machines and pipe threaders)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Steel coil and steel sheet handling assets:
Coil loaders (including hydraulic carts, lift tables and platforms)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Railway rolling stock manufacturing and repair services:
Assembly assets:
Presses (including bearing mounting, bench, brake, hydraulic power and wheel presses)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2014
Specialised hydraulic tool assets10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Handling assets:
Lifting assets generally (including hydraulic double lift jacks, locomotive jacks and stands)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2014
Maintenance and refurbishment assets:
Hydraulic drop and work tables10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Portable presses (including hydraulic power presses)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Presses (including bearing mounting, bench, brake, hydraulic power and wheel presses)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2014
Support assets:
Pumps (including hydraulic pumps)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Aircraft manufacturing and repair services:
Hydraulic power units (including hydraulic mules)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2020
CONSTRUCTION:
Hydraulic excavators10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2002
RETAIL TRADE:
Supermarket and grocery stores:
Bakery assets:
Hydraulic dough dividers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2020
TRANSPORT, POSTAL AND WAREHOUSING:
Water transport and support services:
Support assets (acquired separately from the vessel):
Lifting assets:
Hoists and winches:
Hydraulic and mechanical10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2009
Other warehousing and storage services:
Warehouse and distribution centre equipment and machines:
Waste compactors (used for cardboard and plastic):
Hydraulic20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2011
RENTAL, HIRING AND REAL ESTATE SERVICES:
Residential property operators:
Assets generally:
Lifts (including hydraulic and traction lifts)30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jan 2003
OTHER SERVICES:
Automotive repair and maintenance:
Automotive and heavy vehicle repair and maintenance assets:
Hydraulic brake hose machines5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2011
Hydraulic presses10 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:
Diagnostic, measuring and testing assets:
Generally (including co-ordinate measuring machines, dynamometers, electrical testers, flow meters, hardness testers, hydraulic testers and multimeters)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2015
Hydraulic hose crimpers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2015
Lifting assets:
Jacks (including air hydraulic jacks, hydro pneumatic jacks, floor jacks, transmission jacks, trolley jacks and truck jacks)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2015
Presses:
Hydraulic presses10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2015
Table B
NameEffective LifeDiminishing Value RatePrime Cost RateDate of Application
Concrete truck mixers (incorporating barrel, chutes, frame and hydraulic pumps)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2014
Lifts (including dumbwaiters, hydraulic lifts and traction lifts)30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jan 2003
Warehouse and distribution centre equipment and machines:
Waste compactors (used for cardboard and plastic):
Hydraulic20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2011

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Source: TR 2022/1