ATO Depreciation Rates 2023

Table A
NameEffective LifeDiminishing Value RatePrime Cost RateDate of Application
MANUFACTURING:
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
Packaging assets:
Accumulators10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Batch, barcode, label, and volume readers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Blister pack packaging machines10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Blow-fill-seal (BFS) machines12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jan 2004
Bottle and vial inverters and blowers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Bottle and vial unscramblers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Bundlers and bundle packing machines10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Cappers and sealers (including tamper proof sealers)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Cartoners10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Check weighers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Cream, liquid and powder filling and sealing machines (including bag, bottle, syringe and tube fillers and sealers)12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jan 2004
Desiccant and cotton wool depositors/inserters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Dropper and leaflet inserters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Flaming stations10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Flow wrappers and shrink wrappers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Ink jet batch label printers7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jan 2004
Labelling machines10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Palletisers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Pinhole inspectors10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Robotic pick and place packaging machines10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Sleevers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Tablet/capsule fillers, feeders and counters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Production assets:
Autoclaves (for terminal sterilisation)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Drying ovens10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Encapsulators10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Fluid bed dryers12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jan 2004
Granulators and mixer/granulators12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jan 2004
Homogenisers7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jan 2004
Intermediate bulk containers, bins and vessels (including instruments, pipes, pumps and valves) used to hold and transfer formulations during various stages of production10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Metal detectors10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Mixers and blenders (including cream, liquid, powder, and syrup mixers and blenders)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Sizing mills10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Tablet and capsule coating machines, coating drums and coating pans12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jan 2004
Tablet dedusters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Tablet presses10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Vibrating sieves10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Raw material storage and dispensing assets:
Demountable strong rooms20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2004
Dispensing booths and associated air filtration systems10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Laminar flow benches and biohazard cabinets8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jan 2004
Safes20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2004
Weighing scales10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Scientific medical and pharmaceutical research assets - see Table A Scientific research services (69100)
Services:
Air filtration systems10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Water purification plant10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
PROFESSIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SERVICES:
Scientific research services:
Scientific, medical and pharmaceutical research assets:
Autoclaves:
Bench top autoclaves5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2014
Others10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Automated cell counters5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2014
Automated colony pickers5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2014
Balances10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Biological safety cabinets10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Cell harvesters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Centrifuges:
Bench top centrifuges5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2014
Others10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Computed tomography (CT) scanners10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Digital cameras3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jul 2014
DNA sequencers5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2014
Electrophoresis systems (incorporating power supplies and tanks)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2014
Electroporators8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2014
Fermenters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Flow cytometers8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2014
Freeze dryers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Freezers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Gel documentation systems5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2014
Glassware washers8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2014
Heating blocks10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Homogenisers7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2014
Incubators6 years33.33%16.67%1 Jul 2014
Liquid chromatography systems5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2014
Liquid nitrogen assets (including dewars and tanks)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Microscopes10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Microtomes10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Mixers7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2014
Nano spectrophotometers8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2014
Ovens6 years33.33%16.67%1 Jul 2014
Peristaltic pumps7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2014
pH meters7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2014
Plate readers5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2014
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) thermal cyclers8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2014
Real-time PCR detection machines5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2014
Refrigerators8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2014
Robotic systems (including robotic liquid handling systems and robotic sampler systems)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2014
Shakers7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2014
Sonicators (including water bath sonicators and sonicators with probes)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2014
Spectrophotometers (excluding nano spectrophotometers)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) machines5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2014
Vacuum concentrators7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2014
Water baths (including refrigerated and shaking water baths)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2014
Water purification systems8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2014

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Source: TR 2022/1