ATO Depreciation Rates 2023

Table A
NameEffective LifeDiminishing Value RatePrime Cost RateDate of Application
AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHING:
Fences (excluding stockyard, pen and portable fences): Being fencing constructed at a time for a particular function (e.g. a line of fencing forming a side of a boundary or paddock) not being in the nature of a repair:
General (incorporating anchor assemblies, intermediate posts, rails, wires, wire mesh and droppers)30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2008
Grading and packing line assets used on farm:
Banana assets:
Rails (including points)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2008
MINING:
Railway infrastructure assets and rolling-stock - see Table A Rail freight and passenger transport services (47100 to 47200)
MANUFACTURING:
Meat processing:
Livestock handling assets:
Cattle yards (incorporating concrete base and galvanised steel posts and rails)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2013
Pig lairages (incorporating concrete slat floor and concrete panel walls or concrete floor and galvanised steel posts and rails)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2013
Sheep lairages (incorporating galvanised web mesh base and galvanised steel posts and rails)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Bakery product manufacturing (non-factory based):
Sugar milling assets:
Cane delivery assets:
Cane bin assets:
Rail bins20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2011
Rail bin automatic coupling/de-coupling devices12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2011
Rail assets (excluding cane bin assets) - see Table A Rail freight and passenger transport services (47100 to 47200)
Basic organic chemical manufacturing:
Ethanol manufacturing assets:
Feedstock handling and storage assets:
Molasses assets:
Receival troughs (incorporating protective cladding, rails and roofing)40 years5.00%2.50%1 Jul 2012
Basic inorganic chemical manufacturing:
Ammonia manufacturing assets:
Distribution, handling and storage assets:
Rail and road tank filling assets:
Breakaway couplings10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Filling hoses10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Loading arm systems10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Concrete product manufacturing:
Fibre cement building boards manufacturing assets:
Curing assets:
Autoclaves (incorporating rails)30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2012
Iron smelting and steel manufacturing:
Assets used in common in iron smelting and steel manufacturing processes:
Coil car tracks and rails7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2010
Rail infrastructure and rolling stock except torpedo cars - use any relevant determinations made for Rail freight and passenger transport services (47100 to 47200)
Scale or transfer car rail tracks and turntables20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Coke making assets:
Coke ovens batteries assets:
Charging car rails20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2009
Ram tracks and live rails30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2009
Plate mill assets:
Edgers (incorporating motors, hydraulic controls, mechanical controls, anvil (carryover table), hand rails and walkways)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Rod, bar, structural and rail mill assets:
Controlled tempering quenching cars10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2010
Cut to length machines17 years11.76%5.88%1 Jul 2010
De-scaling systems (incorporating scale breaker, nozzles, pipe work, valves and high pressure pump)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2010
Finishing mills (incorporating motors, gearboxes, drives, guides and cassettes)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Furnace charging skids20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Intermediate mills (incorporating motors, gearboxes, drives, guides and cassettes)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Reversing roughing mills (incorporating motors, gearboxes, drives, guides and cassettes)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Roughing mills (incorporating motors, gearboxes, drives, guides and cassettes)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Shears (incorporating motors and drives)17 years11.76%5.88%1 Jul 2010
Stacker/bundlers12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2010
Straighteners20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Walking beam cooling beds20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Walking beam, natural gas furnaces (incorporating structure, refractories, walking beam floors, furnace hydraulic systems, and charge and discharge doors)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Motor vehicle manufacturing:
Bus and truck manufacturing assets (including bus vehicle body assembling assets and truck body manufacturing assets):
Press shop assets:
Bending machines:
Chassis rail/frame bending machines20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2011
Chassis rail drilling/punching machines:
Chassis rail processing machines (incorporating drilling and profiling)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2011
Punching machines20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2011
Railway rolling stock manufacturing and repair services:
Support assets:
Rail vehicle moving and placing assets (including crabs, shunting locomotives and trackmobiles)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Railway tracks - see Table A Rail freight and passenger transport services (47100 to 47200)
RETAIL TRADE:
Overhead track scales (including meat rail scales)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2005
ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD SERVICES:
Accommodation:
Guestroom assets:
Bathroom assets:
Heated towel rails, electric5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2005
TRANSPORT, POSTAL AND WAREHOUSING:
Road transport:
Containers, transportable (used to transport goods by road, rail and sea)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Tramway and light rail passenger transport services:
Infrastructure assets:
Communication, computer and passenger support assets:
Automatic vehicle monitoring computer systems10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2010
Automatic vehicle monitoring tram borne equipment (including transponders)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2010
CCTV systems4 years50.00%25.00%1 Jul 2010
Control systems10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2010
Hand-held passenger ticketing machines5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2010
Passenger information displays10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2010
Passenger ticketing machines15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Radio base stations, intercoms7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2010
Electrification assets:
Lighting15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Overhead distribution lines (incorporating conductors, cross arms, feeders, insulators, inverters, fittings and poles)30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2010
Power transformers40 years5.00%2.50%1 Jul 2010
Substations (incorporating switchgear and circuit breakers)40 years5.00%2.50%1 Jul 2010
Signalling assets (including automatic points)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Track maintenance assets:
Truck mounted maintenance assets (including points cleaning, sweeping and welding machines)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Trackwork (incorporating track drainage):
Ballasted track25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2010
Curved track20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Embedded track30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2010
Points (excluding automatic points) and crossings20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Track within depots40 years5.00%2.50%1 Jul 2010
Tramway and light rail rolling stock:
Bogies30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2010
Carriages, modules, saloons30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2010
Pantographs15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Rail freight and passenger transport services:
Containers, transportable (used to transport goods by road, rail and sea)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Infrastructure assets:
Electrification assets:
Overhead distribution lines (incorporating conductors, contact catenary, cross arms, insulators and fittings, and poles)33 ⅓ years6.00%3.00%1 Jan 2002
Power transformers30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jan 2002
Substations (incorporating switchgear and circuit breakers)40 years5.00%2.50%1 Jan 2002
Passenger information and ticketing system15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2002
Signalling assets (including axle detectors, block signals, dragging equipment detector, hot boxes, interlockings, level crossings, and train control and train describer)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2002
Trackwork (incorporating rails, sleepers, ballast, permanent way/top 600, and integral bridges, culverts and tunnels):
Freight (trackwork used by vehicles with gross axle loads of 30 tonnes and below per vehicle):
Heavy haul (trackwork carrying >20 GMT per annum)30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jan 2002
Light haul (trackwork carrying <1 GMT per annum)50 years4.00%2.00%1 Jan 2002
Medium haul (trackwork carrying between 1 GMT and 20 GMT per annum)40 years5.00%2.50%1 Jan 2002
Freight (trackwork used by vehicles with gross axle loads above 30 tonnes per vehicle)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2002
Passenger40 years5.00%2.50%1 Jan 2002
Turnouts and crossings20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2002
Monorail operation assets:
Infrastructure assets:
Communication, computer and passenger assets:
CCTV systems4 years50.00%25.00%1 Jul 2010
Control systems (including commutators)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2010
Hand held passenger ticketing machines5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2010
Passenger information displays10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2010
Passenger ticketing machines15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Phones, radio base stations, intercoms7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2010
Rescue and recovery vehicles30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2010
Electrification assets:
Collector rails30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2010
Lighting15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Power transformers40 years5.00%2.50%1 Jul 2010
Standby generators25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2010
Substations (incorporating switchgear and circuit breakers)40 years5.00%2.50%1 Jul 2010
Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2010
Track and maintenance assets:
Beams and columns30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2010
Maintenance vehicles15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Track30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2010
Track switches30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2010
Traversers30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2010
Monorail rolling stock:
Bogies30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2010
Carriages, modules, saloons30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2010
Railway rolling stock:
Locomotives:
Generally (including diesel-electric and electric)25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jan 2002
Heavy haul (bulk minerals/coal)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2002
Underground (diesel-battery)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2002
Passenger:
Electric/diesel power cars and trailers30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jan 2002
Locomotive hauled carriages (including baggage vans, diners, mail vans, sit-up cars, and sleepers)30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jan 2002
Power vans15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2002
Rail mounted track infrastructure assets:
Generally (including ballast wagons/cleaners/regulators, rail grinders, sleeper laying machines and track recorders)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2002
Mainline and switch tampers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2002
Wagons - bulk freight:
Mineral ores and coal:
Carbon steel20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2002
Ferritic steel30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jan 2002
Other:
Coke quenchers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2002
Grain hoppers20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2002
Limestone20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2002
Pneumatic discharge - cement20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2002
Used on tram lines40 years5.00%2.50%1 Jan 2001
Tank cars20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2002
Wagons - non bulk freight (including all wagons used for general and inter-modal freight)30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jan 2002
Water transport and support services:
Port assets:
Cargo handling equipment:
Containers, transportable (used to transport goods by road, rail and sea)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2001
Rail mounted gantries15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2002
Intermodal facilities:
Truck and rail receival dump pit50 years4.00%2.00%1 Jul 2002
Land based facilities:
Concrete rail beams and rails30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2002
Other facilities:
Slipways (incorporating rails, ramps, runners and winching systems)30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2002
INFORMATION MEDIA AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS:
Electronic information storage services:
Rack based power rails (including rack based power distribution unit (PDU))10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2017
RENTAL, HIRING AND REAL ESTATE SERVICES:
Residential property operators:
Bathroom assets:
Heated towel rails, electric10 years20.00%10.00%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
Platform clearance gauges6 years33.33%16.67%1 Jul 2015
Rail profile gauges6 years33.33%16.67%1 Jul 2015
ADMINISTRATIVE AND SUPPORT SERVICES:
Packaging services:
Fruit and vegetables pack houses assets used off farm:
Banana assets:
Rails (including points)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2008
HEALTH CARE AND SOCIAL ASSISTANCE:
General practice medical services:
Privacy curtains and rails8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2020
OTHER SERVICES:
Automotive body, paint and interior repair n.e.c.:
Car wash and detailing assets:
Automatic car wash assets (including rollover and tunnel washes):
Friction washer system assets (including gantry, rails and arches and driers)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2009
Touch free pressure washer system assets (including gantry, rails and arches and driers)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2009
Car conveyor system assets (incorporating correlators, sensors, tracks and rails)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2009
Table B
NameEffective LifeDiminishing Value RatePrime Cost RateDate of Application
Advertising signs:
Wall mounted advertising panels (used in airports, rail concourses and platforms, shopping centres etc):
Digital LED advertising panels5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2015
Static advertising panels10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2015

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Source: TR 2022/1