ATO Depreciation Rates 2023

Table A
NameEffective LifeDiminishing Value RatePrime Cost RateDate of Application
AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHING:
Agriculture:
Hop growers' plant:
Hop picking machines13 ⅓ years15.00%7.50%1 Jan 2001
Kilns20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
Fruit and tree nut growing:
Horticultural plants:
Citrus:
Grapefruits30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jan 2001
Lemons20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
Limes20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
Mandarins25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jan 2001
Oranges30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jan 2001
Grape:
Grapevines, dried15 years13.33%6.67%1 Oct 2004
Grapevines, table15 years13.33%6.67%1 Oct 2004
Grapevines, wine20 years10.00%5.00%1 Oct 2004
Nuts:
Almonds25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2001
Cashews25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2001
Chestnuts25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2001
Hazelnuts25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2001
Jojoba30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2001
Macadamia25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2001
Pecans25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2001
Pistachios25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2001
Walnuts25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2001
Pome:
Apples20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
Pears25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jan 2001
Stone fruit:
Apricots10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Cherries18 years11.11%5.56%1 Jan 2001
Nectarines10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Olives30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jan 2001
Peaches10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Plums15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2001
Prunes20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
Tropical:
Avocados20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
Mangoes30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jan 2001
Poultry hatcheries:
Chilled water plants20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Forestry and logging:
Logging plant:
Cable systems (including winches and high leads)8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jan 2001
Forwarders8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jan 2001
Harvesters and feller bunchers (includes heads)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jan 2001
Log trailers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Saws:
Mobile8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jan 2001
Portable chain2 years100.00%50.00%1 Jan 2001
Snigging plant (including cable and grapple skidders, wheel loaders with log grabs, bulldozers, excavators, arches and winches)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jan 2001
Fishing:
Fishing plant:
Commercial vessels and support assets - see Table A Water transport and support services (48100 to 48200 and 52110 to 52190)
Fish holding baskets10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Purse seine fishing net5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2001
MINING:
Workshop plant20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
Oil and gas extraction:
Gas production assets:
Coal seam gas extraction assets:
Water assets:
Water treatment facility assets (including desalination plants, reverse osmosis, brine concentration and crystallisation assets)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2016
MANUFACTURING:
Meat processing:
Rendering plant:
Bagging/weigh batching machines10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Bins (includes raw material bins, charging hopper/feedbins, cake bins and holding bins)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2001
Blood drying equipment (includes blood holding tanks, agitated holding tanks, coagulators, driers, decanters and dried blood hoppers)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Cookers and driers (includes batch cookers, continuous cookers, continuous driers and pre-heater)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2001
Decanters/centrifuges12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jan 2001
Environmental control equipment (including condensers and associated equipment, bio-filters, air-scrubbers, after-burners and dissolved air flotation systems)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Feathrolysers/feather hydrolysers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Magnets15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2001
Mills10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Mincers/grinders5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2001
Pans and screens (includes percolator pans/screen and shaker screens)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2001
Pre-breakers/pre-hoggers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Screw and bucket elevators10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Screw presses/expeller presses13 years15.38%7.69%1 Jan 2001
Separators/polishers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2001
Tallow storage tanks15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2001
Waste heat evaporators15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2001
Wine and other alcoholic beverage manufacturing:
Support assets:
Reverse osmosis plant10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2008
Wool scouring:
Wool and fleece scouring and carbonising assets:
Dust extraction plant15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2017
Natural textile manufacturing:
Cotton manufacturers' machinery:
Gas producer plant13 ⅓ years15.00%7.50%1 Jan 2001
Leather tanning, fur dressing and leather product manufacturing:
Tanners' plant:
General plant20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
Modern plant used in 'wet' process13 ⅓ years15.00%7.50%1 Jan 2001
Rope, cordage and twine manufacturing:
Rope and twine manufacturers' plant20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
Textile finishing and other textile product manufacturing:
Flock manufacturing plant:
Carding machines13 ⅓ years15.00%7.50%1 Jan 2001
General plant20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
Footwear manufacturing:
Boot and shoe-making machinery:
Machinery and general plant13 ⅓ years15.00%7.50%1 Jan 2001
Log sawmilling and timber dressing:
Saw milling equipment:
Dry or planner mill plant:
Generally (includes multi saw/trimmer, pack docker, planner/molder, resaw or optimiser docker, stress grader and tilt hoist)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Stackers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2001
Tray sorters15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2001
Green mill plant:
Edger line plant (includes board edger and resaw)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Heating plant (includes storage bins/silos)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2001
Kiln drying plant:
Generally (includes kiln trolleys/carriages, traverser and weights)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Timber drying kilns and reconditioners15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2001
Main saw line plant (includes saws, chipper canter, board separator and cant turner)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Sorter and trimming line plant:
Generally (includes grade mark reader and multi trimmer)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Stackers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2001
Vertical bin sorters15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2001
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
Log, lumber and waste transfer equipment15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2001
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
Watering systems15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2001
Miscellaneous plant:
Generally (includes air compressors, extraction systems and pollution and air monitoring equipment)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Moisture meters3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jan 2001
Saw and knife sharpening equipment10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Walkways15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2001
Waste processing equipment:
Bins - waste, chip and fuel15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2001
Chippers, shakers/screens and hoggers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Other wood product manufacturing:
Clothes peg manufacturing plant (wood)13 ⅓ years15.00%7.50%1 Jan 2001
Case-making plant13 ⅓ years15.00%7.50%1 Jan 2001
Cork manufacturers' plant10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Frame (picture) manufacturing plant13 ⅓ years15.00%7.50%1 Jan 2001
Joinery plant13 ⅓ years15.00%7.50%1 Jan 2001
Wood working plant13 ⅓ years15.00%7.50%1 Jan 2001
Reconstituted wood product manufacturing:
Heat plant and boiler assets25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jan 2005
Pulp, paper and converted paper product manufacturing:
Pulp and paper mill assets:
Electrical and instrumentation assets:
Power plant assets (including switchgear, transformers and turbo generators) - see Table A Electricity supply (26110 to 26400)
Paper stationery manufacturing:
Stationers' manufacturing plant13 ⅓ years15.00%7.50%1 Jan 2001
Basic organic chemical manufacturing:
Chemical manufacturing plant (not listed elsewhere):
General plant13 ⅓ years15.00%7.50%1 Jan 2001
Organic peroxides explosion (cell block)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
Basic inorganic chemical manufacturing:
Chemical manufacturing plant (not listed elsewhere):
General plant13 ⅓ years15.00%7.50%1 Jan 2001
Salt manufacturing and refining assets:
Wash plant pumps15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2022
Wash plants (removable)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2022
Sulphuric acid plant:
Acid chambers (irrespective of raw material used)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
Plant:
Where pyrites used in manufacture of the acid10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Where natural sulphur (brimstone) so used13 ⅓ years15.00%7.50%1 Jan 2001
Fertiliser manufacturing:
Fertiliser manufacturing plant (excluding ammonia manufacturing assets and ammonium nitrate manufacturing assets listed in Table A Basic inorganic chemical manufacturing (18130))20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
Human pharmaceutical and medicinal product manufacturing:
Services:
Water purification plant10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Cleaning compound manufacturing:
Boot and shoe polish manufacturing plant13 ⅓ years15.00%7.50%1 Jan 2001
Explosive manufacturing:
Explosives manufacturing and chemical plant (excluding ammonia manufacturing assets and ammonium nitrate manufacturing assets listed in Table A Basic inorganic chemical manufacturing (18130))13 ⅓ years15.00%7.50%1 Jan 2001
Other basic chemical product manufacturing n.e.c.:
Eucalyptus oil plant:
Stills (coolers)40 years5.00%2.50%1 Jan 2001
Tanks40 years5.00%2.50%1 Jan 2001
Rigid and semi-rigid polymer product manufacturing:
Chilled water plant (incorporating chiller, pipes, pumps etc)12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2016
Adhesive manufacturing:
Gelatine and glue manufacturing plant13 ⅓ years15.00%7.50%1 Jan 2001
Paint and coatings manufacturing:
Ink factory plant20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
Natural rubber product manufacturing:
Rubber manufacturers' plant:
Moulds5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2001
Process plant13 ⅓ years15.00%7.50%1 Jan 2001
Ceramic product manufacturing:
Pottery plant20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
Plaster product manufacturing:
Plasterboard and cornice manufacturing assets:
Plasterboard/cornice plant assets:
Chillers (volumetric air-cooled)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2011
Dry end handling assets (including bookers, cascades, conveyors and stackers)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2011
Dryers25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2011
Dunnage assets used to make dunnage25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2011
Forming line assets (including belt conveyors and roller conveyors)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2011
Forming plates10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2011
Forming station assets (excluding forming plates and pin mixers)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2011
Hydropulpers25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2011
Knives (used for plasterboard or cornice)25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2011
Paper and tape assets (including creasers, magazines, splicing assets, tape rollers, tension stations and unwinders)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2011
Pin mixers13 years15.38%7.69%1 Jul 2011
Printers5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2011
Start-up pullers (used for cornice)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2011
Wet-end-transfer assets (including conveyors, dryer in-feeds, turners)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2011
Ready-mixed concrete manufacturing:
Mixers used in wet ready-mixed plants15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2014
Mobile concrete batching plants (incorporating bins, conveyors, tanks, hoppers and trailers, but excluding demountable plant)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Concrete product manufacturing:
Tile manufacturing plant (cement and concrete, but excluding concrete roof tiles):
General plant10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Pallets (aluminium used in extrusion process)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2001
Other non-metallic mineral product manufacturing:
Monumental masons' plant13 ⅓ years15.00%7.50%1 Jan 2001
Slate works plant20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
Iron smelting and steel manufacturing:
Coke making assets:
Coke ovens gas by-products assets:
Ammonia plant assets:
Ammonia incinerators, ammonia stills, tanks, decanters, pumps, condensers (including support structures, stacks)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2009
Benzine, toluene and xylene plant assets:
Distillation columns, dephlegorators, pumps, tanks, coolers, condensers and pre heaters30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2009
Napthalene plant assets:
Sludge tanks, pre heaters, distillation columns, tanks, decanters, condensers, and pumps35 years5.71%2.86%1 Jul 2009
Sulphate plant assets:
Feed tanks, evaporators, centrifuge units, conveyors (including belts, structures, drives and chutes, jet condensers, hot water tanks, driers including chutes, drives, and support structures, pumps, vibrating screens, cyclones, and scraper conveyors)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2009
Tar plant assets:
Decanters, make tanks (incorporating scrapers and drives, storage tanks, steam and electric pumps, liquor tank and strainers)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2009
Non-ferrous metal casting:
Tinsmiths' plant20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
Spring and wire product manufacturing:
Nail manufacturing plant20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
Spring manufacturers' plant:
Cooling furnaces10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Power presses, rotary cambering, scale testing and scragging machines20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
Metal coating and finishing:
Galvanising plant10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Other fabricated metal product manufacturing n.e.c.:
Metal crushing plant (core fragmentised)13 ⅓ years15.00%7.50%1 Jan 2001
Saw-making plant20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
Motor vehicle manufacturing:
Bus and truck manufacturing assets (including bus vehicle body assembling assets and truck body manufacturing assets):
Ancillary and support assets:
Glycol and water mixing plant assets15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2011
Hose reels7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2011
Water demineralising plant assets (including containers, pipework, pumps and reverse osmosis assets)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2011
Motor car engine assembly and manufacturing assets:
Ancillary and support assets:
Engine lubrication storage, filtration and feed plant assets15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Toolroom assets:
Degreasing plant systems (incorporating float valves, hoists, monorails, pumps etc)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Motor vehicle manufacturing plant (not listed elsewhere):
Basic machinery10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Tooling (i.e. jigs, dies, press tools and specialty attachments such as working heads and work-holding tools)3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jan 2001
Other motor vehicle parts manufacturing:
Piston ring manufacturing plant:
Engineering works plant20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
Motors20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
Overhead gear, equipment, belting etc20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
Precision machines13 ⅓ years15.00%7.50%1 Jan 2001
Other transport equipment manufacturing n.e.c.:
Motorcycle building plant10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Other professional and scientific equipment manufacturing n.e.c.:
Watchmakers' plant10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Jewellery and silverware manufacturing:
Jewellers' plant10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Other manufacturing n.e.c.:
Broom and brush manufacturing plant13 ⅓ years15.00%7.50%1 Jan 2001
Umbrella manufacturers' plant:
Cutting boards10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Lathes13 ⅓ years15.00%7.50%1 Jan 2001
Motors20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
ELECTRICITY, GAS, WATER AND WASTE SERVICES:
Electricity supply:
Electricity generation:
Power station civil and structural works:
Power station buildings, to the extent that they form an integral part of plant30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jan 2002
RETAIL TRADE:
Food retailing:
Butchers' plant20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
INFORMATION MEDIA AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS:
Motion picture exhibition:
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
RENTAL, HIRING AND REAL ESTATE SERVICES:
Rental and hiring services (except real estate):
Generators:
Generator with attached lighting plant10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2005
ARTS AND RECREATION SERVICES:
Sports and physical recreation venues, grounds and facilities operations n.e.c.:
Bowling centres (plant and equipment):
Bowling alleys (timber - including ball return tracks, gutters, pit signals and terminals)13 ⅓ years15.00%7.50%1 Jan 2001
Bowling balls5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2001
Carpets4 years50.00%25.00%1 Jan 2001
Masking units10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Pin setters and pin spotters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Other equipment13 ⅓ years15.00%7.50%1 Jan 2001
Skating rink plant:
Fittings (open air)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
General freezing plant and equipment13 ⅓ years15.00%7.50%1 Jan 2001
Hired ice skating boots5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2001
Roller skates5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2001
Surface (synthetic panels)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Amusement parks and centres operation and amusement and other recreational activities n.e.c.:
Golf courses (miniature):
Lighting plant, electric motors, moving parts20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2001
OTHER SERVICES:
Automotive body, paint and interior repair n.e.c.:
Car wash and detailing assets:
Support assets:
Plant room assets:
Air compressors
Compressors - reciprocating7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2009
Compressors - screw10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2009
Boilers20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2009
Control systems10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2009
Pumps12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2009
Table B
NameEffective LifeDiminishing Value RatePrime Cost RateDate of Application
Foundations for plant and machinery (integral to the operation of such plant and machinery, but not incorporated into the plant and machinery itself)40 years5.00%2.50%1 Jul 2014
Spas used as plant in a business (incorporating blowers, controls, filters, heaters and pumps)17 years11.76%5.88%1 Jul 2014
Swimming pool assets:
Swimming pools (used as plant in a business):
Above-ground10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2005
Concrete50 years4.00%2.00%1 Jul 2005
Fibreglass20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2005

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Source: TR 2022/1