ATO Depreciation Rates 2023

Table A
NameEffective LifeDiminishing Value RatePrime Cost RateDate of Application
MINING:
Gold ore mining:
Gold ore processing assets:
Laboratory assets:
Atmospheric adsorption spectrometers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2004
Generally (including drying ovens, pulverisers, crushers, gas fired ovens, fume cupboards)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2004
MANUFACTURING:
Meat processing:
Support assets:
Laboratory assets10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Cured meat and smallgoods manufacturing:
Support assets generally (including boilers, control systems, cranes (gantry and overhead), fire control and alarm assets, laboratory assets, loading bay assets (dock levellers, pallet jacks and pallet trucks, scissor lifts), refrigeration assets etc) - see Table B
Dairy product manufacturing:
Ancillary and support assets:
Laboratory equipment:
Generally (excluding penetrometers) - see Table B Laboratory assets used in quality control, sample checking etc
Penetrometers13 years15.38%7.69%1 Jul 2018
Fruit and vegetable processing:
Fruit juice and fruit juice drink manufacturing assets:
Support assets:
Laboratory equipment:
Electronic (including high performance liquid chromatography or HPLC machines, refractometers, spectrometry machines and titrimetric analysers)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2010
Non-electronic10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2010
Oil and fat manufacturing:
Edible oil or fat, blended, modified, refined or solvent extracted manufacturing assets (including canola, safflower, soybean):
Measuring and monitoring assets:
Laboratory assets:
Colorimeters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2012
Furnace ovens15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Gas chromatograph analysers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2012
Moisture and protein analysers, electronic (including near infrared analysers)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2012
Spectrophotometers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Vacuum separators10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2012
Grain mill product manufacturing:
Flour milling assets:
Quality control assets:
Laboratory testing equipment (including near infrared analysers)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2017
Rice milling assets:
Quality control assets:
Laboratory equipment (including moisture testing machines)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2017
Bakery product manufacturing (non-factory based):
Sugar milling assets:
Support assets:
Laboratory assets:
Cutter grinders15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2011
Moisture determination ovens10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2011
Polarimeters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2011
Rotary juice samplers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2011
Spectrometers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2011
Wet disintegrators15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2011
Prepared animal and bird feed manufacturing:
Pet food manufacturing assets:
Support assets:
Laboratory and analysing assets (including probes and samplers)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Prepared animal and bird feed manufacturing assets generally:
Support assets:
Laboratory assets (including grain testing assets)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2012
Other food product manufacturing n.e.c.:
Coffee processing assets:
Support assets:
Laboratory assets:
Electronic (including analysers and spectrometers)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2012
Generally10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2012
Peanut processing assets:
Laboratory assets:
Generally10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2009
Laboratory analysers5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2009
Tea processing assets:
Laboratory assets:
Generally15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Laboratory analysers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2012
Soft drink, cordial and syrup manufacturing:
Support assets:
Laboratory equipment10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2009
Spirit manufacturing:
Distillation assets
Laboratory and testing assets (including alcoholmeters, alcolyzers, density meters, gas chromatographs, Graham condensers, homogenisers, hydrometers, Inland Revenue condensers and sugar testers)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2018
Wine and other alcoholic beverage manufacturing:
Support assets:
Grape/wine testing equipment:
Laboratory - glassware2 years100.00%50.00%1 Jul 2008
Laboratory - other equipment10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2008
Sanitary paper product manufacturing:
Support assets:
Laboratory assets (including quality control and material testing assets)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Petroleum refining:
Oil refinery assets:
Laboratory equipment20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
Basic organic chemical manufacturing:
Ethanol manufacturing assets:
Support and other assets:
Laboratory assets:
Analysers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2012
Other laboratory equipment (including autoclaves, centrifuges, drying ovens, fume cupboards and UV sterilisers)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2012
Basic inorganic chemical manufacturing:
Ammonia manufacturing assets:
Support assets:
Laboratory assets:
Analysers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Other laboratory equipment (including centrifuges, drying ovens, fume cupboards etc)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Human pharmaceutical and medicinal product manufacturing:
Laboratory assets:
Bench top autoclaves5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2004
Incubators6 years33.33%16.67%1 Jan 2004
Laboratory analysers (including coagulators, carbon analysers, colour readers, gas chromatographs, high performance liquid chromatographs (HPLCs), and spectrophotometers)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2004
Particle sizers5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2004
Polymer film and sheet packaging material manufacturing:
Support assets:
Laboratory assets:
Generally15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2014
Laboratory analysers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Rigid and semi-rigid polymer product manufacturing:
Laboratory assets:
Generally15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2016
Laboratory analysers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2016
Motor vehicle manufacturing:
Motor car engine assembly and manufacturing assets:
Waste treatment assets:
Laboratory equipment (including balancers, chart recorders, dryers, pH sampling devices, rotameters and simulators etc)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2012
PROFESSIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SERVICES:
Scientific testing and analysis services:
Coal laboratory assets:
Sample preparation assets:
Drop shatters20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2018
Drum tumblers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2018
Drying ovens:
Benchtop7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2018
Others (including floor size with trolleys)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2018
Dust extraction systems15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2018
Float-sink buckets8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2018
Float-sink testing units (incorporating ventilation ducting, fans, density separation apparatus etc, but excluding float-sink buckets)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2018
Flotation machines (including froth rotation machines)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2018
Jaw crushers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Pulverisers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Riffle splitters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Rotary Sample Dividers (RSDs)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2018
Sample storage assets:
Cool room assets - see Table B Refrigeration assets
Portable refrigerators/freezers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Sample trays5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2018
Sample trolleys10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Sieve shakers (excluding sieves)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Sieves (including various meshes and sizes)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2018
Weighing scales10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Laboratory analytical equipment and instruments:
Analytical balances7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2018
Calorimeters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Carbon and sulphur analysers7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2018
CHN analysers (including carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2018
Coal ash fusibility furnaces10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Crucible Swell Number (CSN) burners10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Dilatometers9 years22.22%11.11%1 Jul 2018
Fume cabinets15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2018
Moisture testing ovens (including nitrogen setup apparatus)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Muffle furnaces15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2018
Particle size analysers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Petrographic microscopes10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Plastometers9 years22.22%11.11%1 Jul 2018
Water baths (including ultrasonic water baths)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2018
X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) and X-Ray Diffraction (XRD)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2018
Mineral processing and metallurgical laboratory assets:
Sample preparation assets:
Benchtop (including work benches and tables)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Centrifugal concentrators15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2019
Cone crushers20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2019
Drying ovens:
Benchtop7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Others (including floor size with trolleys)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Dust cabinet (including extracted workstations)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2019
Dust extraction systems15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2019
Flotation machines (including froth rotation machines)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2019
Gravity separation assets (including centrifuges and cyclones)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Grinding mills12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2019
Jaw crushers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Laboratory tumblers (including cyanide leach test tumblers)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Micro dosing peristaltic pumps7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Overhead tank mixers5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2019
pH control systems15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2019
Pressure filters8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2019
Pulverisers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Riffle splitters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Rotary Sample Dividers (RSDs)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Sample storage assets:
Cool room assets - See Table B under 'Refrigeration'
Portable refrigerators/freezers8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2019
Sample trays3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jul 2019
Sample trolleys7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Scrubbers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2019
Shaking tables (including wet tables)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2019
Sieve shakers (excluding sieves)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Sieves (including various meshes and sizes)3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jul 2019
Solvent extraction & electrowinning equipment15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2019
Vacuum filters7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Water purification systems15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2019
Weighing scales7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Laboratory analytical equipment and instruments:
Analytical balances7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS) instruments10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Auto dilutors7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Auto titration instruments7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Carbon and sulphur analysers7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Cupellation furnaces10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Fume cabinets15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2019
Fusion furnaces10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Hot blocks7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Hotplate magnetic stirrers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Incubators7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), and Inductively coupled plasmas optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Ion Chromatography (IC) equipment15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2019
Muffle furnaces12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2019
Overhead stirrers8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2019
Particle size analysers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Petrographic microscopes10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Robotic cells (including robotic fusion cells, robotic preparations cells)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Robotic TGA cells7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Thermogravimetric Analysers (TGAs)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Water baths5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2019
X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) and X-Ray Diffraction (XRD)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Veterinary services:
Veterinarians' assets:
Pathology assets:
Laboratory analysers:
Electrolyte analysers4 years50.00%25.00%1 Jan 2004
Generally5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2004
HEALTH CARE AND SOCIAL ASSISTANCE:
Specialist medical services n.e.c.:
Thoracic physicians' assets:
Sleep laboratory systems (incorporating amplifiers, sensors, integrated CPAP monitors, integrated carbon dioxide (C02) monitors, integrated pulse oximeters, integrated computers and integrated software)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2003
Pathology and diagnostic imaging services:
Pathologists' assets:
Laboratory analysers5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2002
Table B
NameEffective LifeDiminishing Value RatePrime Cost RateDate of Application
Laboratory assets used in quality control, sample checking etc:
Automated and electronically based laboratory assets (including analysers, refractometers, spectrometry machines etc)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2014
Other laboratory assets (including autoclaves, centrifuges, microscopes, ovens etc)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014

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Source: TR 2022/1