ATO Depreciation Rates 2023

Table A
NameEffective LifeDiminishing Value RatePrime Cost RateDate of Application
AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHING:
Beef cattle feedlots:
Feed milling and handling assets:
Sampling and testing assets5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2007
MANUFACTURING:
Fruit and vegetable processing:
Dried fruit (other than sun-dried) manufacturing assets:
Quality control and inspection assets:
Testing equipment15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2018
Grain mill product manufacturing:
Flour milling assets:
Quality control assets:
Laboratory testing equipment (including near infrared analysers)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2017
Rice milling assets:
Quality control assets:
Laboratory equipment (including moisture testing machines)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2017
Prepared animal and bird feed manufacturing:
Pet food manufacturing assets:
Wet process assets:
Seal thickness testing assets10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Prepared animal and bird feed manufacturing assets generally:
Support assets:
Laboratory assets (including grain testing assets)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2012
Spirit manufacturing:
Distillation assets
Laboratory and testing assets (including alcoholmeters, alcolyzers, density meters, gas chromatographs, Graham condensers, homogenisers, hydrometers, Inland Revenue condensers and sugar testers)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2018
Wine and other alcoholic beverage manufacturing:
Support assets:
Grape/wine testing equipment:
Grape must analyzers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2008
Laboratory - glassware2 years100.00%50.00%1 Jul 2008
Laboratory - other equipment10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2008
Sanitary paper product manufacturing:
Support assets:
Laboratory assets (including quality control and material testing assets)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Industrial gas manufacturing:
Industrial gas distribution assets:
Cylinder preparation assets:
Cylinder testing machines10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2011
Paint and coatings manufacturing:
Paint and coatings manufacturing assets:
Testing assets:
Air conditioning assets (including room units and split systems)8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2013
Gloss meters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Ovens15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2013
Spectrometers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Viscometers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Glass and glass product manufacturing:
Glass product manufacturing assets:
Automotive glass product manufacturing assets:
Inspection assets:
Automotive toughened glass product inspection assets (including thermal imaging testing assets)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2009
Cement manufacturing:
Support assets:
Testing equipment:
Generally (including spectrometers, gas chromatographs, titrators, calorimeters, laser granulometers, photometers, moisture analysers, drying ovens)8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2011
Raw material analysers5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2011
XRF/XRD analysers5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2011
Ready-mixed concrete manufacturing:
Testing assets:
Concrete testers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Ovens8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2014
Non-ferrous metal casting:
Metal casting assets (non-ferrous e.g. aluminium, brass and magnesium):
Testing assets:
Co-ordinate measurement machines10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Leak and pressure testing machines4 years50.00%25.00%1 Jan 2004
Spectrometers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
X-ray machines15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2004
Spring and wire product manufacturing:
Spring manufacturers' plant:
Power presses, rotary cambering, scale testing and scragging machines20 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):
Trim and final shop assets:
Brake testing units20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2011
Electrical systems testing assets15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2011
Torque testing machines (including chassis dynamometers and engine dynamometers)12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2011
Motor car engine assembly and manufacturing assets:
Engine component machining line assets (including broaching machines, deburring machines, gauging machines, honing machines, leak testing machines, machining centres, pallet loading systems, surface grinding machines, transfer machines, washing machines etc)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Engine function testing assets (including cold test machines, engine dynamometers, engine ignition testing machines and hot test machines)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2012
Quality control assets generally (including cylinder head thickness testers, digital torque wrenches, gauges, inspection equipment generally, measuring equipment generally, microscopes, scales, scanners, testing equipment generally, thermometers, vibration meters etc)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2012
Railway rolling stock manufacturing and repair services:
Testing assets:
Bogie, brake and spring testing assets10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Cab test benches and CRC cable testing assets5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2014
Earth testing assets10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Electrical testing assets (including multimeters)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Post production testing assets (excluding weighing assets - see above in support assets):
Water test facility assets (incorporating control systems, gantries, pipes, pumps etc)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Other post production testing assets5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2014
Test sheds for testing locomotives and other rolling stock30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2014
Aircraft manufacturing and repair services:
Aircraft testing and measurement equipment:
Instrumentation, dynamometers and calibrating equipment (including testing equipment for engines, radios)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2020
Maintenance stands (including rigs and engine stands)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2020
Test cell tunnels40 years5.00%2.50%1 Jul 2020
INFORMATION MEDIA AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS:
Television broadcasting:
Signal measurement, monitoring and testing assets (including modulation monitors, RF analysers, test signal generators, vectorscopes and waveform monitors)12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2005
PROFESSIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SERVICES:
Scientific testing and analysis services:
Coal laboratory assets:
Sample preparation assets:
Drop shatters20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2018
Drum tumblers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2018
Drying ovens:
Benchtop7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2018
Others (including floor size with trolleys)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2018
Dust extraction systems15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2018
Float-sink buckets8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2018
Float-sink testing units (incorporating ventilation ducting, fans, density separation apparatus etc, but excluding float-sink buckets)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2018
Flotation machines (including froth rotation machines)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2018
Jaw crushers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Pulverisers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Riffle splitters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Rotary Sample Dividers (RSDs)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2018
Sample storage assets:
Cool room assets - see Table B Refrigeration assets
Portable refrigerators/freezers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Sample trays5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2018
Sample trolleys10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Sieve shakers (excluding sieves)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Sieves (including various meshes and sizes)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2018
Weighing scales10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Laboratory analytical equipment and instruments:
Analytical balances7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2018
Calorimeters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Carbon and sulphur analysers7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2018
CHN analysers (including carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2018
Coal ash fusibility furnaces10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Crucible Swell Number (CSN) burners10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Dilatometers9 years22.22%11.11%1 Jul 2018
Fume cabinets15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2018
Moisture testing ovens (including nitrogen setup apparatus)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Muffle furnaces15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2018
Particle size analysers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Petrographic microscopes10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Plastometers9 years22.22%11.11%1 Jul 2018
Water baths (including ultrasonic water baths)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2018
X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) and X-Ray Diffraction (XRD)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2018
Mineral processing and metallurgical laboratory assets:
Sample preparation assets:
Benchtop (including work benches and tables)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Centrifugal concentrators15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2019
Cone crushers20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2019
Drying ovens:
Benchtop7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Others (including floor size with trolleys)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Dust cabinet (including extracted workstations)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2019
Dust extraction systems15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2019
Flotation machines (including froth rotation machines)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2019
Gravity separation assets (including centrifuges and cyclones)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Grinding mills12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2019
Jaw crushers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Laboratory tumblers (including cyanide leach test tumblers)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Micro dosing peristaltic pumps7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Overhead tank mixers5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2019
pH control systems15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2019
Pressure filters8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2019
Pulverisers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Riffle splitters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Rotary Sample Dividers (RSDs)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Sample storage assets:
Cool room assets - See Table B under 'Refrigeration'
Portable refrigerators/freezers8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2019
Sample trays3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jul 2019
Sample trolleys7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Scrubbers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2019
Shaking tables (including wet tables)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2019
Sieve shakers (excluding sieves)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Sieves (including various meshes and sizes)3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jul 2019
Solvent extraction & electrowinning equipment15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2019
Vacuum filters7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Water purification systems15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2019
Weighing scales7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Laboratory analytical equipment and instruments:
Analytical balances7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS) instruments10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Auto dilutors7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Auto titration instruments7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Carbon and sulphur analysers7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Cupellation furnaces10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Fume cabinets15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2019
Fusion furnaces10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Hot blocks7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Hotplate magnetic stirrers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Incubators7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), and Inductively coupled plasmas optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Ion Chromatography (IC) equipment15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2019
Muffle furnaces12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2019
Overhead stirrers8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2019
Particle size analysers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Petrographic microscopes10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Robotic cells (including robotic fusion cells, robotic preparations cells)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2019
Robotic TGA cells7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Thermogravimetric Analysers (TGAs)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
Water baths5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2019
X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) and X-Ray Diffraction (XRD)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2019
HEALTH CARE AND SOCIAL ASSISTANCE:
Optometry and optical dispensing:
Optical assets:
Visual acuity testing assets:
Automated vision testers6 years33.33%16.67%1 Jan 2004
Manual vision testers (phoropters)12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jan 2004
Visual acuity charts (illuminated)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Visual acuity chart projectors (automated)8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jan 2004
Visual field testing assets (perimeters) - automated5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jan 2004
OTHER SERVICES:
Automotive repair and maintenance:
Automotive and heavy vehicle repair and maintenance assets:
Drive-on plate brake, steering and suspension testing machines10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2011
Other machinery and equipment repair and maintenance:
Agriculture, construction and mining heavy machinery and equipment repair and maintenance assets:
Workshop assets:
Diagnostic, measuring and testing assets:
Generally (including co-ordinate measuring machines, dynamometers, electrical testers, flow meters, hardness testers, hydraulic testers and multimeters)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2015
Laptop diagnostic systems:
Laptops - see Table B Computers, Laptops
Machine interface units3 years66.67%33.33%1 Jul 2015
Tyre pressure gauges5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2015
Vehicle specific diagnostic assets5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2015

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Source: TR 2022/1