Taxation Ruling
TR 2013/4
TR 2013/4 - Income tax: effective life of depreciating assets (applicable from 1 July 2013)
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TR 2013/4 - Effective lives (Industry Categories)
Table A as at 1 July 2013 - HEALTH CARE AND SOCIAL ASSISTANCE
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HEALTH CARE AND SOCIAL ASSISTANCE
( 84010 to 87900 ) |
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| ASSET |
LIFE
(YEARS) |
REVIEWED |
DATE OF
APPLICATION |
| Medical assets: | |||
| Benchtop sterilisers | 5 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Benchtop ultrasonic cleaners | 7 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Clinical furniture | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| X-Ray viewers | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
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Hospitals
( 84010 to 84020 ) |
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| ASSET |
LIFE
(YEARS) |
REVIEWED |
DATE OF
APPLICATION |
| Hospital assets: | |||
| Anaesthesia machines | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Angiography assets: | |||
| Image acquisition system (incorporating computer with digital subtraction capability, digital camera, monitor and integrated software) | 4 | * | 1 Jul 2002 |
| Image intensifier | 7 | * | 1 Jul 2002 |
| Patient gantry or table, patient monitoring assets, positioning assets, and pressure injectors | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2002 |
| Cell savers and cell separators | 7 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Colposcopes | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Defibrillators | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Diathermy and cautery machines/electrosurgical generators | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Endoscopic surgery assets (excluding disposable accessories): | |||
| Arthroscopic fluid management systems | 7 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Endoscopes (flexible and rigid) and endoscopic surgical instruments | 4 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Endoscopic camera systems: | |||
| Beam splitters and light sources | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Printers, video cameras, video camera adaptors, couplers and heads, video image capture systems and video processors | 5 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Still cameras | 7 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Video monitors and video recorders | 7 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Endoscopic electrosurgical generators | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Endoscopic lasers | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Endoscopic ultrasound systems (incorporating scanner, transducers/probes, integrated computer and integrated software) | 5 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Haemodialysis machines | 7 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Head lights | 7 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Hospital furniture: | |||
| Beds: | |||
| Electronic | 7 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Mechanical | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Bedside cabinets/lockers, carts and poles, blanket warming cabinets, blood warming cabinets, medical refrigerators, and overbed tables | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Infusion pumps: | |||
| General, pain management and rapid | 8 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Syringe driven | 6 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Insufflators | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Lithotriptors used for extra-corporeal shock wave lithotripsy | 7 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Mechanical assist assets: | |||
| Calf and cuff compression devices | 8 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Cardiac bypass and heart lung machines | 8 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Intra-aortic balloon pumps | 8 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Ventricular assist heart pumps | 8 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Natal care assets (including incubators, infant warmers and mobile infant warmers) | 7 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Operating tables and attachments: | |||
| Electronic | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Mechanical | 13 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Operating theatre lights | 8 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Pan flushers | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Patient hoists and lifters | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Patient monitoring assets: | |||
| Bedside monitoring systems | 7 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Cardiac monitors | 7 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| ECG (electrocardiographs) | 7 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Foetal monitors | 7 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Pulse oximeters | 7 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Vital signs monitors | 7 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Patient warming assets (excluding disposable accessories): | |||
| Fluid warmers | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Forced air patient warmers | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Smoke evacuators | 8 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Sterilisation and autoclave processing assets: | |||
| Drying cabinets | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Endoscope sterilisers and disinfectors | 5 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Flash sterilisers | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Instrument washers | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Pre-vacuum sterilisers | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Ultrasonic cleaners and baths | 7 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Surgical instruments: | |||
| Hand held manually operated instruments | 8 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Powered instruments (including drills, saws, shavers, non-disposable instrument accessories and power sources) | 7 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Ultrasonic aspirators | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Ultrasonic scalpels | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Surgical lasers (excluding ophthalmic surgical lasers) | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Surgical microscopes | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Ultrasonic bladder scanners | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Ultrasonic needle guides | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Ultrasound systems (incorporating scanner, transducers, integrated computer and integrated software) used by cardiologists, obstetricians and vascular surgeons | 5 | * | 1 Jul 2002 |
| Ventilators: | |||
| Fixed | 7 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Portable | 5 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
| Wheelchairs | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2003 |
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Dental services
( 85310 ) |
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| ASSET |
LIFE
(YEARS) |
REVIEWED |
DATE OF
APPLICATION |
| Dentists' assets: | |||
| Air abrasion units | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Air compressors | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Amalgamators | 7 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Amalgam separators | 7 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Computerised (CAD/CAM) ceramic restoration systems: | |||
| Imaging units | 7 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Milling units | 5 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Curing lights (halogen) | 5 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Dental chairs | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Dental instruments: | |||
| Hand-held manually operated instruments | 3 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Handpieces (driven by compressed air, compressed gas or electricity) | 3 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Dental lasers: | |||
| Hard tissue and soft tissue lasers | 7 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Soft tissue and whitening lasers | 7 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Soft tissue lasers | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Dental loupes | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Dental operating lights | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Dental units | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Dental x-ray assets: | |||
| Conventional x-ray film systems (incorporating control box, swing arm and x-ray head but excluding OPG systems) | 15 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Digital x-ray systems (including intra-oral storage phosphor plate systems and intra-oral digital sensor systems) | 7 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Intra-oral x-ray film processors | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Handpiece cleaners | 5 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Intra-oral camera systems (incorporating camera and integrated processor/docking station) | 7 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Nitrous oxide sedation units | 20 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Oral surgical motors | 5 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Suction units | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Ultrasonic scalers (standalone) | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
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Optometry and optical dispensing
( 85320 ) |
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| ASSET |
LIFE
(YEARS) |
REVIEWED |
DATE OF
APPLICATION |
| Optical assets: | |||
| Automatic refractometers/keratometers | 5 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Cameras (including anterior segment cameras, retinal cameras, fundus cameras): | |||
| Analogue | 8 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Digital | 4 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Colour vision testers (automated) | 8 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Corneal topography systems | 5 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Examination chairs | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Glaucoma diagnostic assets (including ocular coherence tomographs (OCT), scanning laser ophthalmoscopes and scanning laser polarimeters) | 5 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Keratometers (Ophthalmometers): | |||
| Automated | 5 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Manual | 12 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Ophthalmic surgery assets: | |||
| Microkeratome | 3 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Ophthalmic cryo surgery systems | 5 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Ophthalmic diathermy surgery systems | 5 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Ophthalmic lasers: | |||
| Non-refractive | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Refractive (including eye tracking systems) | 4 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Phacoemulsification systems | 4 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Pupillometers (used for refractive surgery) | 5 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Vitrectomy systems | 4 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Wave front analysers | 4 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Ophthalmic viewers | 5 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Ophthalmoscopes: | |||
| Direct (including power supply) | 8 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Indirect | 9 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Optical dispensing assets - see Table A Photographic, optical and ophthalmic equipment manufacturing (24110) | |||
| Refraction units (including examination chair, instrument arms, table and light source) | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Refractometers (automated) | 5 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Slit lamp biomicroscopes: | |||
| Hand-held | 9 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Mounted | 12 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Telemedicine digital imaging systems (excluding the imaging device) | 4 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Tonometers: | |||
| Contact tonometers: | |||
| Applanation: | |||
| Hand-held | 6 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Mounted | 8 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Electronic | 6 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Non-contact tonometers: | |||
| Hand-held | 5 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Table mounted | 8 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Trial lens sets | 20 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Ultrasound diagnostic assets (including A-scan biometers, A/B scan biometers, B-scan biometers, Laser interference biometers, Pachymeters and Ultrasound biomicroscopes - UBM) | 5 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Visual acuity testing assets: | |||
| Automated vision testers | 6 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Manual vision testers (phoropters) | 12 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Visual acuity charts (illuminated) | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Visual acuity chart projectors (automated) | 8 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
| Visual field testing assets (perimeters) - automated | 5 | * | 1 Jan 2004 |
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Pathologist and other pathology
( 85202 and 85209 ) |
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| ASSET |
LIFE
(YEARS) |
REVIEWED |
DATE OF
APPLICATION |
| Pathologists' assets: | |||
| Batch slide stainer | 6 | * | 1 Jan 2002 |
| Bio hazard chambers | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2002 |
| Centrifuges | 5 | * | 1 Jan 2002 |
| Incubators | 6 | * | 1 Jan 2002 |
| Laboratory analysers | 5 | * | 1 Jan 2002 |
| Microscopes | 10 | * | 1 Jan 2002 |
| Rotary microtomes | 6 | * | 1 Jan 2002 |
| Tissue embedding systems | 6 | * | 1 Jan 2002 |
| Tissue processors | 6 | * | 1 Jan 2002 |
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Podiatry services
( 85399 ) |
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| ASSET |
LIFE
(YEARS) |
REVIEWED |
DATE OF
APPLICATION |
| Podiatrists' assets: | |||
| Computerised orthoses manufacturing assets: | |||
| Contact pin digitisers | 7 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Carving mills | 7 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Doppler vascularscopes | 5 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Electric nail drills: | |||
| Dust extraction drills | 7 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Portable dust extraction drills | 5 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Water and alcohol based spray drills | 4 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Examination/magnifying lamps | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Footrests | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Gait analysis assets: | |||
| Computerised systems (incorporating in-shoe pressure analysis or platform based pressure mats, integrated hardware and integrated software) | 4 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Non-computerised: | |||
| Treadmills | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Video cameras | 5 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Video monitors and video recorders | 7 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Orthotic benchtop grinders | 6 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Patient chairs | 12 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Podiatric instruments | 3 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Vacuum presses | 3 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Vascular neurological assessment assets: | |||
| Monofilaments | 2 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Tuning forks | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
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Radiology and diagnostic imaging services
( 85201, 85203 and 85209 ) |
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| ASSET |
LIFE
(YEARS) |
REVIEWED |
DATE OF
APPLICATION |
| Radiologists' diagnostic imaging assets: | |||
| Bone densitometry (BMD) system (incorporating either a whole body scanner, integrated computer and integrated software, or a spine and hip scanner, holding devices, integrated computer and integrated software) | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2002 |
| Computed radiography (CR) digitiser | 4 | * | 1 Jul 2002 |
| Computed tomography (CT) system (incorporating scanner, integrated computer and integrated software) | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2002 |
| Film digitiser | 4 | * | 1 Jul 2002 |
| Fluoroscopy assets (excluding direct radiography assets): | |||
| Fixed system (incorporating buckies, generators, screening table and suspensions) | 15 | * | 1 Jul 2002 |
| Image acquisition system (incorporating a computer, digital camera, integrated software and monitor) | 4 | * | 1 Jul 2002 |
| Image intensifier | 7 | * | 1 Jul 2002 |
| Mobile system (incorporating buckies, generators, screening table and suspensions) | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2002 |
| Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system (incorporating a scanner, cooling system, radio frequency coil accessories, integrated computer and integrated software) | 7 | * | 1 Jul 2002 |
| Mammography systems (incorporating either prone core biopsy scanner, quality assurance equipment, stereotaxis, integrated computer and integrated software or conventional upright scanner, quality assurance equipment, stereotaxis, integrated computer and integrated software) | 7 | * | 1 Jul 2002 |
| Nuclear medicine systems (incorporating camera, gantry, collimators, integrated computer, integrated software and hot lab equipment but excluding Positron Emission Tomography (PET) systems) | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2002 |
| Orthopantomography (OPG) systems (incorporating scanner, integrated computer and integrated software) | 15 | * | 1 Jul 2002 |
| Patient archival and communication systems (PACS) | 4 | * | 1 Jul 2002 |
| Processing assets: | |||
| Daylight imaging processors | 9 | * | 1 Jul 2002 |
| Dry laser imaging processors | 8 | * | 1 Jul 2002 |
| Wet laser imaging processors | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2002 |
| Teleradiology assets (excluding the imaging device) | 4 | * | 1 Jul 2002 |
| Ultrasound systems (incorporating scanner, transducers, integrated computer and integrated software) | 5 | * | 1 Jul 2002 |
| X-ray assets (excluding direct radiography assets): | |||
| Fixed systems (incorporating buckies, control panels, generators, screening table, suspensions, tube column and x-ray tube) | 15 | * | 1 Jul 2002 |
| Image intensifier | 7 | * | 1 Jul 2002 |
| Mobile systems (incorporating buckies, control panels, generators, screening table, suspensions, tube column and x-ray tube) | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2002 |
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( 85129 ) |
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| ASSET |
LIFE
(YEARS) |
REVIEWED |
DATE OF
APPLICATION |
| Neurologists' assets: | |||
| Electroencephalography (EEG) systems (incorporating electrodes, amplifier, integrated software and integrated computer) | 5 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Electromyography (EMG) systems (incorporating electrodes, amplifiers, integrated software and integrated computer) | 5 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Thoracic physicians' assets: | |||
| Body plethysmographs (incorporating flow sensors, gas analysers, integrated software and integrated computer) | 7 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and variable positive airway pressure (VPAP) systems | 7 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Lung function analysis exercise systems (incorporating flow sensors, treadmill or ergometer, ECG, pulse oximeter, integrated software and integrated computer) | 7 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Lung function analysis systems (incorporating flow sensors, gas analysers, integrated software and integrated computer) | 7 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Spirometers | 7 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
| Sleep laboratory systems (incorporating amplifiers, sensors, integrated CPAP monitor, integrated carbon dioxide monitor, integrated pulse oximeters, integrated computer and integrated software) | 7 | * | 1 Jul 2003 |
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Nursing home operation
( 86011 ) |
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| ASSET |
LIFE
(YEARS) |
REVIEWED |
DATE OF
APPLICATION |
| Beds: | |||
| Electronic | 7 | * | 1 Jul 2004 |
| Mechanical | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2004 |
| Bedside cabinets/lockers, carts and poles and overbed tables | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2004 |
| Commodes | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2004 |
| Nurse call systems | 7 | * | 1 Jul 2004 |
| Pan flushers | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2004 |
| Patient hoists and lifters | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2004 |
| Patient monitoring assets | 7 | * | 1 Jul 2004 |
| Patient scales | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2004 |
| Shower chairs | 7 | * | 1 Jul 2004 |
| Trolleys | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2004 |
| Wheelchairs | 10 | * | 1 Jul 2004 |
Not issued as a draft
References
ATO references:
NO 99/132027; 2000/20567; 2003/11601; 2004/17815; 2005/6504; 2005/18073; 2006/25212; 2007/7796; 2008/9394; 2009/5704; 1-20KCCA6; 1-2Z8ZAX4; 1-3VCCZ0O; 1-4NMTK3G
ISSN: 1039-0731
Related Rulings/Determinations:
IT 2685
TR 2000/18
TR 2006/5
TR 2006/15
TR 2007/3
TR 2008/4
TR 2009/4
TR 2010/2
TR 2011/2
TR 2012/2
Subject References:
capped lives
determination of effective life
decline in value
depreciating assets
effective life
effective life determination
Legislative References:
ITAA 1997
ITAA 1997 Div 40
ITAA 1997 40-70(1)
ITAA 1997 40-72(1)
ITAA 1997 40-75(1)
ITAA 1997 40-95
ITAA 1997 40-100
ITAA 1997 40-100(5)
ITAA 1997 40-100(6)(b)
ITAA 1997 40-102(4)
ITAA 1997 40-102(4A)
ITAA 1997 40-105
ITAA 1997 40-110
TAA 1953
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