ATO Depreciation Rates 2023

Table A
NameEffective LifeDiminishing Value RatePrime Cost RateDate of Application
AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHING:
Poultry farming for breeding, eggs and meat:
Animal housing environmental control assets:
Control systems (excluding personal computers)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Curtains:
Baffles, brooders10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Sidewalls5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2007
Tunnel inlets10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Evaporative cooling systems (including frames, pipes, pumps, tanks and coolpads)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Foggers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Heaters15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Minimum vents (including cabling)12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jan 2007
Sensors4 years50.00%25.00%1 Jan 2007
Tunnel inlet panels15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Ventilation fans:
Exhaust fans (tunnel, minivent)12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jan 2007
Stirrer fans15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Animal housing structures (incorporating frames, walls, rooves, insulation, doors, floors and lighting)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Cages (for egg layers)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Egg belt systems (under cage/nest housing) (including belts, rollers, tensioners and drive units)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Egg conveyors (including drive units)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Egg counters15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Egg elevators (including drive units)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Egg grading and packing assets:
Egg grader and packing systems (including box erectors, box sealers, candling machines, conveyors, crack, dirt, leak and blood detectors, denesters (egg inners and trays), egg loaders, egg oilers, egg tray stackers, egg washers, egg weigher and transfer systems, imprinters (egg and box), packers (inners, trays and boxes) and wrappers)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Pallet levellers (coil spring)25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jan 2007
Palletisers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Trolley lifters15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Farm trolleys:
Chicken transport10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Egg transport10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Feeding systems (including troughs, trolleys, chains, hoppers, pans, tubes with auger and drive units)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Generators (emergency)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Hanging cable systems (for feeders, drinkers and nest housing)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Manure belt systems (under cage/nest housing) (including polypropylene belts, scrapers, rollers, tensioners and drive units)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Manure conveyors (including drive units)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Nest housing (including slatted walkways)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Silos for feed:
Metal20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Ancillary equipment:
Augers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Conveyors and elevators15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Water assets:
Drinking systems (including tubing, nipple drinkers, drinking cups, pressure regulators and filter units)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Winches10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Poultry hatcheries:
Air handlers20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Boilers20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Candling equipment20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Chick counters20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Chilled water plants20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Condensers/heat exchangers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Control systems (excluding personal computers)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Conveyors20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Generators (emergency)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Hatcher baskets10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Hatcher trolleys/dollies10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Hatchers (including integrated controller units)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Hatchery buildings (incorporating frames, walls, rooves, insulation, doors, floors and lighting)40 years5.00%2.50%1 Jan 2007
Macerators20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Separators - chick and egg20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Setter trays10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Setter trolley unloaders20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Setter trolleys10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2007
Setters/incubators (including integrated controller unit)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Stacker/destacker systems20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Transfer machines - farm trolley to setter trolley20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Transfer machines - setter tray to hatcher basket20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Vaccinators15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Vacuum/auger systems (waste)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Washing assets20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
MANUFACTURING:
Poultry processing:
Chilling assets:
Freezers (including blast tunnels, in-line air chillers, and spiral freezers)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2017
Spin chillers and immersion chillers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2017
Conveyors: overhead chains (carrying birds)1 years200.00%100.00%1 Jul 2017
Cut up & portion cutting assets:
Cut-up machines (for body, breast, legs, necks, wings etc)12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2017
Dicers, flatteners and portion cutters (including air, bowl, vacuum, vertical, water jet etc)6 years33.33%16.67%1 Jul 2017
Deboning area assets:
Automatic deboners10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2017
Bone scanners (x-ray or photo)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2017
Cone lines10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2017
Extruders, grinders and mechanical deboned meat (MDM) machines10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2017
Saws and pneumatic guns5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2017
Skinners6 years33.33%16.67%1 Jul 2017
Defeathering equipment:
Pluckers or pickers13 years15.38%7.69%1 Jul 2017
Pluckers (waterfowl necks or tails)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2017
Pluckers (drums and wax peelers)6 years33.33%16.67%1 Jul 2017
Scalders (air or water)11 years18.18%9.09%1 Jul 2017
Waxing tanks8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2017
Evisceration equipment:
Croppers, feet removers, giblet processors, head removers, heart lung harvesters, heart lung separators, openers, vent cutters etc)11 years18.18%9.09%1 Jul 2017
Inside/outside bird washers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2017
Further processing assets:
Coating machines, breaders, dusters etc10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2017
Filling machines (including Kiev, sausage, stuffing etc)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2017
Injectors (including brine, saline, seasoning etc)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2017
Marinating machines (including marinade sprayers, mixers, vacuum tumbler massagers etc)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2017
Ovens and cookers (including gyro, spiral, steam, thermal fluid fryers, vertical airflow etc)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2017
Grading equipment:
Camera vision scanners6 years33.33%16.67%1 Jul 2017
Overhead chain weighing, sorting, and transfer systems7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2017
Killing equipment:
Controlled atmosphere stunning (CAS) machines10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2017
Electric water stunners12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2017
Killers12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2017
Live bird handling systems (including live bird containers)12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2017
Packaging machines generally (bagging machines, batchers, carton and case erecting and closing machines, inspection equipment (checkweighers, metal detectors etc), multihead and singlehead weighers, palletisers and depalletisers, product identification labellers, robotic pick and place machines and wrapping machines) - see Table B Packaging machines
Shrink dip tanks and shrink wrap tunnels10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2017

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Source: TR 2022/1