ATO Depreciation Rates 2023

Table A
NameEffective LifeDiminishing Value RatePrime Cost RateDate of Application
AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHING:
Grading and packing line assets used on farm:
General assets:
Bin tippers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2008
Agriculture:
Grain, cotton, peanut and rice assets:
Harvesting assets:
Chaser bins15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Field bins20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Seeding and fertilizing assets:
Seed and fertilizer bins15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Nursery and floriculture production:
General assets:
Bins and pallets5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2006
Vegetable growing (outdoors) and sugar cane growing:
General assets:
Bins:
Plastic10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2007
Timber5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2007
Harvesting assets:
Cane haul out bins12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2007
Fruit and tree nut growing:
Coffee, olive and tree nut growing assets:
General assets:
Bins:
Plastic10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2007
Timber5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2007
Fruit growing assets:
Dried fruit assets:
Generally (including bin dryers, boxing machines, dehydration tunnels, dippers, rack dehydrators, scrapers, trolleys and wetting machines)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2008
General assets:
Bins:
Plastic10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2008
Timber5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2008
Harvesting assets:
Trailers (including grape chaser bins)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2008
Beef cattle farming:
Feed bins (including hay racks)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Beef cattle feedlots:
Feed milling and handling assets:
Grain processing assets:
Steam flaking surge bins15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2007
Silos and bins used for storing dry grain:
Concrete50 years4.00%2.00%1 Jan 2007
Steel20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jan 2007
Aquaculture:
Bins and crates5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2007
Other agriculture and fishing support services:
Pulse and seed processing assets:
Product and raw material handling and receiving assets:
Chaser bins15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2017
Field bins10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2017
MINING:
Materials handling assets:
Bins, chutes, hoppers, bunkers and silos30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2003
Coal mining:
Materials handling assets:
Bins, chutes, hoppers, silos and storage bunkers30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2003
Mineral sand mining:
Materials handling assets (including bins, bucket and conveying elevators, conveyors, feeders, hoppers, loading systems, paddle mixers and tailings stackers)30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jan 2003
Construction material mining:
Material handling assets (including chutes, feeders, hoppers, product bins and surge bins)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2003
MANUFACTURING:
Meat processing:
Boning room assets:
Dump and product bins15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2013
Rendering plant:
Bins (includes raw material bins, charging hopper/feedbins, cake bins and holding bins)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2001
Slaughter floor assets:
Offal processing assets:
Offal bins15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2013
Cured meat and smallgoods manufacturing:
Ancillary assets:
Bin and tray washers12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2016
Bin lifters and tippers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2016
Bins:
Plastic5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2016
Stainless steel15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2016
Dairy product manufacturing:
Ancillary and support assets:
Bin and drum tippers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2018
Bins generally:
Plastic8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2017
Stainless steel15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2017
Lifting and handling assets:
Lifters (including small bin, box, drum, roll and vacuum lifters)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2017
Assets for dairy powder manufacturing:
Powder bins20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2017
Packaging assets:
Filling and sealing/capping machines (including various types used in the industry such as bag, bin, bottle, bulk, can, carton, pouch and tub filling and sealing/capping machines; form fill and seal machines; preformed cup filling and sealing machines; seamers and clinchers)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2018
Fruit and vegetable processing:
Dried fruit (other than sun-dried) manufacturing assets:
Product and raw material handling assets:
Bins10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2018
Bin tippers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2018
Fruit juice and fruit juice drink manufacturing assets:
Support assets:
Bins, cages and hoppers20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Preserved fruit and vegetable manufacturing assets:
Support assets:
Bin tippers20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2018
Oil and fat manufacturing:
Receiving and storage assets:
Bins and containers20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2017
Cereal and pasta product manufacturing:
Ancillary assets:
Bin washers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2008
Product and raw material receiving and handling assets:
Bins and hoppers (including tote bins, intermediate bulk containers, scaling bins etc):
Mild and stainless steel15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2008
Others (including plastic and fibreglass)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2008
Tipping stations (tote bin dumpers)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2008
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
Road bins12 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)
Cane juice filtration and clarification assets:
Lime and mud storage bins25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2011
Power generation assets:
Bagasse handling assets:
Bagasse bins (incorporating stacking and reclaim systems)30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2011
Sugar drying and storage assets:
Sugar storage bins and silos30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2011
Sugar refining assets:
Sugar receival, drying, screening, and storage assets:
Bins, hoppers and silos30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2011
Prepared animal and bird feed manufacturing:
Pet food manufacturing assets:
Raw material receiving, storage and handling assets:
Storage bins20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2013
Support assets:
Bins (including tippers and raw material bins)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2013
Prepared animal and bird feed manufacturing assets generally:
Batching, grinding and mixing assets:
Bins (including mash, outloading, surge, supply and raw material bins)30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2012
Raw material receiving, storage and handling assets:
Storage bins20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2012
Support assets:
Feed delivery bins15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Other food product manufacturing n.e.c.:
Coffee processing assets:
Bins and hoppers (including gravity bins and holding bins)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2012
Frozen pre-prepared food manufacturing assets (including frozen appetisers and finger foods such as dim sims and spring rolls, frozen french fries/potato chips, frozen pizzas and frozen pre-prepared meals):
Ingredient receiving and handling assets:
Bins and hoppers (including holding bins, intermediate bulk containers, tote bins etc):
Mild and stainless steel15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Others (including plastic and fibreglass)8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2012
Potato storage assets:
Potato pilers (bin pilers)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2012
Tippers and unloaders (including bin tippers and unloaders, bulker bag unloaders and tote tippers and unloaders)12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2012
Peanut processing assets:
Bins and hoppers (including gravity bins, holding bins, shell bins, surge bins etc)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2009
Tea processing assets:
Bins (including receiving and refrigerated)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Bin tippers20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2012
Soft drink, cordial and syrup manufacturing:
Ice manufacturing assets (excluding dry ice manufacturing assets):
Support assets:
Ice storage bins, feed bins and rake bins20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2016
Wine and other alcoholic beverage manufacturing:
Grape handling assets:
Grape bins (plastic)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2008
Textile floor covering manufacturing:
Carpet manufacturing assets:
J Bins20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2017
Log sawmilling and timber dressing:
Saw milling equipment:
Green mill plant:
Heating plant (includes storage bins/silos)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2001
Sorter and trimming line plant:
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
Waste processing equipment:
Bins - waste, chip and fuel15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jan 2001
Sanitary paper product manufacturing:
Support assets:
Storage assets (including bins and trolleys)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2013
Basic inorganic chemical manufacturing:
Ammonium nitrate manufacturing assets:
Ammonium nitrate prill manufacturing assets:
Distribution, handling and storage assets:
Load out bins/silos25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2013
Human pharmaceutical and medicinal product manufacturing:
Production assets:
Intermediate bulk containers, bins and vessels (including instruments, pipes, pumps and valves) used to hold and transfer formulations during various stages of production10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jan 2004
Rigid and semi-rigid polymer product manufacturing:
Bins10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2016
Glass and glass product manufacturing:
Container glass and flat (float) glass manufacturing assets:
Batch house assets:
Other assets (including batch conveyors, batch mixers, bins, hoppers and weigh hoppers)25 years8.00%4.00%1 Jul 2008
Cement manufacturing:
Storage, handling and packing assets:
Hoppers, bins and tanks20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2011
Plaster product manufacturing:
Plasterboard and cornice manufacturing assets:
General:
Bins20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2011
Ready-mixed concrete manufacturing:
Bins (including weigh bins, but excluding concrete bins)15 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
Volumetric concrete batching trucks:
Volumetric concrete batching units (incorporating bins, hoppers, mixing augurs and water tanks)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2014
Concrete product manufacturing:
Concrete block, brick and paver manufacturing assets:
Batching and mixing assets:
Bins (excluding concrete bins)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2011
Concrete roof tile manufacturing assets:
Bins15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2012
Prefabricated concrete product manufacturing assets:
Concrete manufacturing assets:
Bins (excluding concrete bins)15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2013
Iron smelting and steel manufacturing:
Basic oxygen steelmaking (BOS) and electric arc furnace (EAF) steel making assets:
Materials handling assets:
Bins20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Blast furnace assets:
Materials handling assets:
Furnace charging bins15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2010
Coke making assets:
Materials handling assets:
Bins (including furnace coke, dust disposal bins)20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2009
Pellet making assets:
Materials handling assets:
Flux bins20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2010
Primary metal product casting assets:
Materials handling assets:
Mould powder bins23 years8.70%4.35%1 Jul 2010
Sinter making assets:
Materials handling assets:
Bins:
Coke bins15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2009
Ore bins23 years8.70%4.35%1 Jul 2009
Sinter bins17 years11.76%5.88%1 Jul 2009
Alumina production:
Alumina manufacturing (including bauxite refining and calcined alumina manufacturing):
Bauxite crushing and handling assets:
Train loading assets (including conveyors, product bins and towers)30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jan 2003
Steel coil roll forming, slitting and blanking and sheet metal forming:
Steel coil slitting assets:
Scrap chopper bins and carriages20 years10.00%5.00%1 Jul 2012
Motor vehicle manufacturing:
Bus and truck manufacturing assets (including bus vehicle body assembling assets and truck body manufacturing assets):
Ancillary and support assets:
Stillages, storage bins tote boxes and trolleys15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2011
Motor car engine assembly and manufacturing assets:
Ancillary and support assets:
Stillages, storage bins, tote boxes and trolleys10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2012
ELECTRICITY, GAS, WATER AND WASTE SERVICES:
Solid waste collection services:
Bins:
Domestic mobile bins (plastic)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2015
Industrial mobile rubbish bins (metal)8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2015
Industrial mobile rubbish bins (plastic)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2015
Metal skips for hire8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2015
Roll-on roll-off containers10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2015
Stationary and portable compactor bins8 years25.00%12.50%1 Jul 2015
Bin delivery vehicle cranes/bin and skip lifters10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2015
Waste treatment and disposal services:
Transfer stations and landfill operation assets:
Bins:
Bins generally (including metal bins)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2015
Compactor bins6 years33.33%16.67%1 Jul 2015
Mobile bins (including rubbish bins)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2015
Waste remediation and materials recovery services:
Materials recovery facility (MRF) assets:
Bins:
Bins generally (including metal bins)7 years28.57%14.29%1 Jul 2014
Compactor bins6 years33.33%16.67%1 Jul 2014
Mobile bins (including rubbish bins)5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2014
RETAIL TRADE:
Supermarket and grocery stores:
Produce assets:
Produce bins12 years16.67%8.33%1 Jul 2020
Support and other assets:
Bin lifters15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2020
ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD SERVICES:
Accommodation:
Housekeeping assets (including bins, buckets, floor signs and toilet brushes)1 years200.00%100.00%1 Jul 2005
Laundry assets used by hotel/motel operators:
Linen bins15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2005
TRANSPORT, POSTAL AND WAREHOUSING:
Water transport and support services:
Port assets:
Land based facilities:
Conveyor systems (incorporating chutes, gravity take-up assemblies, headframes, structures, surge bins, transfer towers and weigh towers)30 years6.67%3.33%1 Jul 2002
Courier pick-up and delivery services:
Materials handling equipment:
Trolleys, freight barrows, cages and bins10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2011
RENTAL, HIRING AND REAL ESTATE SERVICES:
Residential property operators:
Assets generally:
Garbage bins10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2004
ADMINISTRATIVE AND SUPPORT SERVICES:
Packaging services:
Fruit and vegetables pack houses assets used off farm:
General assets:
Bins5 years40.00%20.00%1 Jul 2008
Bin tippers15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2008
OTHER SERVICES:
Laundry and dry cleaning services:
Support assets:
Trolleys and bins:
Generally10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2011
Stainless steel15 years13.33%6.67%1 Jul 2011
Table B
NameEffective LifeDiminishing Value RatePrime Cost RateDate of Application
Waste storage and disposal bins (including crane bins, hooklift bins, skip bins and other industrial use bins)10 years20.00%10.00%1 Jul 2016

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Source: TR 2022/1