Taxation Ruling
TR 2014/4
TR 2014/4 - Income tax: effective life of depreciating assets (applicable from 1 July 2014)
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TR 2014/4 - Effective lives (Industry Categories)
Table A as at 1 July 2014 - HEALTH CARE AND SOCIAL ASSISTANCE
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Specialist medical services n.e.c
( 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 |
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; 1-5EJ20VG
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
TR 2013/4
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
Other References:
Income Tax (Effective Life of Depreciating Assets) Amendment Determination 2014 (No. 1)
Date: | Version: | Change: | |
25 June 2014 | Original ruling | ||
16 July 2014 | Consolidated ruling | Erratum | |
You are here | 6 August 2014 | Consolidated ruling | Addendum |