ATO Depreciation Rates 2023

Table A
NameEffective LifeDiminishing Value RatePrime Cost RateDate of Application
AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHING:
Sheep farming:
Dipping and spraying assets for parasite control:
Mobile plunge dips5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2007
Forestry and logging:
Logging plant:
Saws:
Mobile8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jan 2001
Other agriculture and fishing support services:
Pulse and seed processing assets:
Product and raw material handling and receiving assets:
Tubulators/Mobile belt conveyors/Belt shifters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2017
MINING:
Surface mobile mining machines:
Bucket wheel excavators30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2002
Compressors20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2002
Cranes20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2002
Dozers9 years22.22%11.11%1 Jul 2002
Draglines30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2002
Drill rigs (Production)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2002
Electric rope shovels25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2002
Generators10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2002
Graders10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2002
Hydraulic excavators (including hydraulic front shovels)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2002
Lighting systems10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2002
Off highway trucks (including articulated, rigid dump, service, fuel and water trucks)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2002
Rollers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2002
Scrapers7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2002
Skid steer loader7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2002
Tool carriers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2002
Wheel loaders8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2002
Underground mobile mining machines:
Compressors10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2002
Continuous haulage systems10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2002
Continuous miners10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2002
Drill rigs:
Diamond20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2002
Production7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2002
Feeder breakers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2002
Graders10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2002
Jumbos10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2002
Load-haul-dump machines6 years33.33%16.67%1 Jul 2002
Long-wall equipment:
Armoured face conveyors6 years33.33%16.67%1 Jul 2002
Beam stage loaders7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2002
Hydraulic pump modules15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2002
Hydraulic roof supports10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2002
Impact crushers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2002
Mobile conveyors tail end5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2002
Roof support relocation vehicles10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2002
Shearers7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2002
Shearer carriers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2002
Maintenance vehicles8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2002
Personnel transporters8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2002
Raise borers and down reamers20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2002
Roof bolters8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2002
Scissor lifts6 years33.33%16.67%1 Jul 2002
Shuttle cars12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2002
Skid steer loaders12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2002
Underground haulage trucks6 years33.33%16.67%1 Jul 2002
Wheel loaders6 years33.33%16.67%1 Jul 2002
Construction material mining:
Crushers:
Mobile (track or wheel mounted machinery including screening and conveying components)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2003
Heavy mobile quarry assets not specifically listed - see Table A Mining (06000 to 10900)
Other non-metallic mineral mining and quarrying n.e.c.:
Salt harvesting assets:
Mobile pump stations5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2021
Other mining support services:
Gas and oil mining support services (excluding offshore services):
Cementing assets:
Cement silos:
Mobile10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Drilling assets:
Mobile fluid tanks10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Mineral mining support services:
Blasting assets:
Mobile processing units (MPUs):
Surface
Motor vehicles - see Table B Motor vehicles and trailers
MPUs9 years22.22%11.11%1 Jul 2017
Underground MPUs (incorporating motor vehicle and MPU)6 years33.33%16.67%1 Jul 2017
MANUFACTURING:
Soft drink, cordial and syrup manufacturing:
Ice manufacturing assets (excluding dry ice manufacturing assets):
Ice cabinets:
Mobile ice boxes7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2016
Wine and other alcoholic beverage manufacturing:
Grape handling assets:
Electronic scales (mobile)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2008
Log sawmilling and timber dressing:
Saw milling equipment:
Green mill plant:
Log yard equipment:
Fixed and mobile cranes12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jan 2001
Mobile equipment (including log loaders with log grabs)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jan 2001
Ready-mixed concrete manufacturing:
Mobile concrete batching plants (incorporating bins, conveyors, tanks, hoppers and trailers, but excluding demountable plant)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Steel coil roll forming, slitting and blanking and sheet metal forming:
Steel coil roll forming assets:
Roll formers (incorporating entry guides, fixed and height adjustable pinch rollers, drive motor and gearboxes, base and power supply unit):
Mobile10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2012
Motor vehicle manufacturing:
Bus and truck manufacturing assets (including bus vehicle body assembling assets and truck body manufacturing assets):
Ancillary and support assets:
Dust and fume extraction assets:
Mobile7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2011
Weighers:
Mobile10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2011
Handling assets:
Mobile hoists/floor cranes (including engine and radiator hoists)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2011
Aircraft manufacturing and repair services:
Mobile cranes10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2020
ELECTRICITY, GAS, WATER AND WASTE SERVICES:
Solid waste collection services:
Bins:
Domestic mobile bins (plastic)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2015
Industrial mobile rubbish bins (metal)8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2015
Industrial mobile rubbish bins (plastic)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2015
Waste treatment and disposal services:
Transfer stations and landfill operation assets:
Bins:
Mobile bins (including rubbish bins)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2015
Waste remediation and materials recovery services:
Materials recovery facility (MRF) assets:
Bins:
Mobile bins (including rubbish bins)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2014
CONSTRUCTION:
Concreting assets:
Mobile concrete pumping units6 ⅔ years30.00%15.00%1 Jan 2001
Cranes (mobile):
Light and medium15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2002
Heavy (over 15.24 tonnes lift)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2002
Tower and hoists10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
TRANSPORT, POSTAL AND WAREHOUSING:
Water transport and support services:
Port assets:
Cargo handling equipment:
Cranes:
Mobile (over 15.24 tonnes lift)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2002
INFORMATION MEDIA AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS:
Radio broadcasting:
Mobile production vehicles (excluding the assets contained within) - see Table B Motor vehicles and trailers
Television broadcasting:
Mobile production vehicles (excluding the assets contained within) - see Table B Motor vehicles and trailers
Transmitting masts (for mobile production vehicles)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2005
Telecommunications services:
Mobile telecommunications assets:
Base station assets:
Antennas, battery backup, radio transmitters/receivers and rectifiers6 years33.33%16.67%1 Jul 2002
Towers25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2002
Base station controller hardware10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2002
Microwave assets (including antennas, electronic multiplexers and transmitters/receivers)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2002
Mobile switching centre hardware10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2002
RENTAL, HIRING AND REAL ESTATE SERVICES:
Rental and hiring services (except real estate):
Traffic management assets:
Traffic management signs:
Traffic lights - mobile10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Residential property operators:
Security and monitoring assets:
Security systems:
Global System for Mobiles (GSM) units5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2004
PROFESSIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SERVICES:
Surveying and mapping services:
Rail surveying assets:
Mobile rail surveying equipment5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2015
Veterinary services:
Veterinarians' assets:
X-ray assets (excluding direct radiography assets):
Mobile or portable x-ray units10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
HEALTH CARE AND SOCIAL ASSISTANCE:
Hospitals:
Hospital assets:
Natal care assets (including incubators, infant warmers and mobile infant warmers)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jan 2003
Pathology and diagnostic imaging services:
Radiologists' diagnostic imaging assets:
Fluoroscopy assets (excluding direct radiography assets):
Mobile systems (incorporating buckies, generators, screening tables and suspensions)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2002
X-ray assets (excluding direct radiography assets):
Mobile systems (incorporating buckies, control panels, generators, screening table, suspensions, tube column and x-ray tube)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2002
Retirement village and accommodation for the aged operation:
Assistance and medical assets:
Hoists:
Mobile (floor, full, standing)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Mobile suction machines3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jul 2019
Shower trolleys/mobile baths8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2019
ARTS AND RECREATION SERVICES:
Amusement parks and centres operation and amusement and other recreational activities n.e.c.:
Amusement machines and equipment:
Rides and devices (fixed or mobile):
Chair-o-planes15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2002
Children's indoor soft playgrounds5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2002
Children's rides (designed for the carriage of children less than 8 years old)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2002
Ferris wheels25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jan 2002
Free falls (including giant drop and tower of terror)25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jan 2002
Inflatables (including jumping castles)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2002
Overhead transit devices (including chair lifts and cabin lifts)25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jan 2002
Roller coasters:
Non-powered (including corkscrew loop, looping coasters and mini roller coasters - wild cat, madmouse)25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jan 2002
Powered (including tornado)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2002
Round rides with or without additional motions (including merry-go-rounds)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2002
Self-drive non-powered gravity rides (including toboggans and bob-sleds):
Track20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2002
Vehicle5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2002
Self-drive powered rides (including dodgems and go-karts):
Track15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2002
Vehicle5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2002
Simulators10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2002
Swinging rides (including pirate ship, spaceloop, and rainbow)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2002
Trains, tracked or trackless (including tractor trains and miniature railways)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2002
Water rides20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2002
Water slides (gravity powered)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2002
OTHER SERVICES:
Automotive repair and maintenance:
Automotive and heavy vehicle repair and maintenance assets:
Vehicle service and inspection lane assets:
Data collection devices (including bar code readers, mobile recorders and transponders)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2011
Automotive body, paint and interior repair n.e.c.:
Smash repair assets:
Painting assets:
Infrared paint dryers:
Mobile7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2009
Vacuum dust collection mobile units3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jul 2009
Other machinery and equipment repair and maintenance:
Agriculture, construction and mining heavy machinery and equipment repair and maintenance assets:
Workshop assets:
Brake testers (including in-ground and mobile roller brake testers)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2015
Lifting assets:
Cranes:
Portable cranes generally (including engine cranes, engine hoists, floor cranes, mobile gantries, shop cranes etc)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2015
Vehicle lifters (including mobile column lifts and post hoists)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2015
Table B
NameEffective LifeDiminishing Value RatePrime Cost RateDate of Application
Advertising signs:
Billboard assets:
Mobile billboard assets:
Digital LED screens4 years50.00%25.00%1 Jul 2015
Mobile billboard trucks and trailers - see Table B Motor vehicles and trailers
Computers and computer equipment:
Mobile/portable computers (including laptops, tablets)2 years100.00%50.00%1 Jul 2016
Office furniture, freestanding:
Cabinets (including credenzas, cupboards, filing, mapping, mobile, stationery and storage type):
Metal20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2005
Timber/laminated15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2005
Mobile storage units (compactus type)25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2005
Security and monitoring assets:
Security systems:
Global system for mobiles (GSM) units5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2004
Telephony:
Mobile phones3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jul 2014
Two-way radios:
Mobile units6 years33.33%16.67%1 Jul 2014

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Source: TR 2022/1