ATO Depreciation Rates 2023

Table A
NameEffective LifeDiminishing Value RatePrime Cost RateDate of Application
MANUFACTURING:
Other wood product manufacturing:
Frame (picture) manufacturing plant13 ⅓ years15.00%7.50%1 Jan 2001
INFORMATION MEDIA AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS:
Motion picture and video activities:
Camera accessories:
Aspect ratio converters12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jan 2006
Digital or electronic time code slates5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Speed control, time lapse and phase adjustment controls10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Time code generators and master clocks10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Underwater and marine housings and rain deflectors12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jan 2006
Video assist systems (incorporating monitors, video recorder with playback, transmitters and receivers)3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jan 2006
Cameras:
16mm and 35mm film cameras10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Digital cameras5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Camera lens accessories:
Coloured and graduated filters and filter stages3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jan 2006
Fish eye and wide angle lens adapters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Follow focus, remote focus, shutter and zoom controls10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Image stabilisers, matte boxes, and teleprompters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Camera lenses10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Camera supports (including heads, legs mounts and tripods)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Copyright in a feature film (not including a licence relating to a copyright in a feature film)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2004
Grips' assets:
Camera cranes10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Camera heads10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Car rigs, sea rigs and other specialised rigs2 years100.00%50.00%1 Jan 2006
Communications systems5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Dollies12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jan 2006
Dolly and camera attachments10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Dolly track5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Remote camera control systems10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Towers, rigging, and dance floors10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Tracking vehicles and insert trailers - see Table B Motor vehicles and trailers
Lighting assets:
Accessories (including gaffer grips, clamps, mounts, and stands)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Portable lights10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Studio lights - fixed15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2006
Lighting control systems10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Lighting grids - fixed20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2006
Lighting hoists15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2006
Motion picture film processing assets:
Chemical agitators and mixers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Chemical storage tanks15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2006
Film cleaning machines10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Film colour analysers and colour grading machines8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jan 2006
Film densitometers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Film printing machines10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Film processing machines10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Film re-winders15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2006
Flat bed and rear projection film viewers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2006
Mixed chemical pumps10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Optical sound camera systems (incorporating soundtrack and time code generators)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Silver recovery units8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jan 2006
Sound quality control processors5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Waste water treatment assets10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Post production sound assets:
Amplifiers and pre-amplifiers5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Audio effects units (incorporating aural exciters, compressors, delay and effects control processors graphic equalisers, harmonisers, limiters, noise reduction processors, reverberation processors, telephone simulators and time controllers)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Digital audio players and recorders (including CD, DVD, digital audio tape (DAT), mini disc and hard disc players and recorders)3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jan 2006
Digital film projectors5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Digital sound conversion processors (including encoders and decoders)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Hard disc video players and recorders3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jan 2006
Microphones and microphone accessories10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Motion picture film projectors10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Screens5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Sound mixing desks and consoles5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Speakers7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jan 2006
Time code synchronisation units5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Video routers and servers5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Post production video assets:
DVD players3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jan 2006
Edit controllers (used in linear editing)4 years50.00%25.00%1 Jan 2006
High definition digital film scanners4 years50.00%25.00%1 Jan 2006
High definition laser film recorders5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Monitors5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Motion capture and analysis systems5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Non-linear editing systems (incorporating computer control, interface and hard disc system)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Telecine chains (incorporating colour correctors, film time code readers, grain and noise reduction systems and telecine machines)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jan 2006
VHS video cassette players and recorders2 years100.00%50.00%1 Jan 2006
Video routers and servers5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Videotape players and recorders5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Screening theatre assets:
Audio amplification and processing equipment (includes component racks systems)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Digital audio players, digital film projectors and digital sound conversion processors5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Motion picture film projectors10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Screens8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jan 2006
Speakers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Sound recording assets:
Amplifiers and pre-amplifiers5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Sound mixing consoles5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Boom poles2 years100.00%50.00%1 Jan 2006
Compressors, expanders and limiters5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Digital audio players and recorders (including CD, DVD, digital audio tape (DAT), mini disc and hard disc players and recorders)2 years100.00%50.00%1 Jan 2006
Digital or electronic time code slates5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Headphones:
Generally2 years100.00%50.00%1 Jan 2006
Miniature in-ear headphones1 years200.00%100.00%1 Jan 2006
Microphones:
Field or boom microphones7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jan 2006
Lapel microphones1 years200.00%100.00%1 Jan 2006
Microphone accessories (including adapters, connectors, stands, suspension mounts, pistol grips, windscreens and windjammers)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Microphone cables2 years100.00%50.00%1 Jan 2006
Radio microphone systems (incorporating antennas, miniature microphones, receivers and transmitters)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Studio microphones10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2006
Monitors2 years100.00%50.00%1 Jan 2006
Speakers5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Vision switchers5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Video monitors5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2006
Motion picture exhibition:
Audio amplification and processing equipment (including component rack systems)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Carpets5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2001
Cinema automation systems10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Cinema and sound processors8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jan 2001
Cinema seating (including frames, seat bodies and covers)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jan 2001
Curtains, wall and acoustic treatments7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jan 2001
Drive-in plant:
Sound transmission equipment10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Listening units (including posts, wiring and speaker equipment)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Screens and screen framing15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2001
Film handling and maintenance equipment (including splicers, footage counters, spools and reels, stripper plates, rewinders, spinners, trolleys and cleaners)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Film transport systems (including platter systems, tower, make-up tables and interlock systems)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2001
Lighting (including dimmers, aisle and seat)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Loud speakers and sound reproduction equipment10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Motion picture and slide projection equipment:
Motion picture projectors10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Projector heat extraction systems10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Projection ports20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
Slide projectors10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Screen installations (including screens, framing and masking equipment)8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jan 2001

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Source: TR 2022/1