Taxation Ruling

TR 2006/5

Income tax: effective life of depreciating assets

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What this Ruling is about
Previous Rulings
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Date of effect
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Appendix 1: Explanation
Appendix 3: Detailed contents list
Table A
Table B

This Ruling provides you with the following level of protection:

This publication (excluding appendices) is a public ruling for the purposes of the Taxation Administration Act 1953.

A public ruling is an expression of the Commissioner's opinion about the way in which a relevant provision applies, or would apply, to entities generally or to a class of entities in relation to a particular scheme or a class of schemes.

If you rely on this ruling, we must apply the law to you in the way set out in the ruling (or in a way that is more favourable for you if we are satisfied that the ruling is incorrect and disadvantages you, and we are not prevented from doing so by a time limit imposed by the law). You will be protected from having to pay any under-paid tax, penalty or interest in respect of the matters covered by this ruling if it turns out that it does not correctly state how the relevant provision applies to you.

What this Ruling is about

1. This Ruling discusses the methodology used by the Commissioner of Taxation in making determinations of the effective life of depreciating assets under section 40-100 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 (ITAA 1997).

2. The effective life of a depreciating asset is used to work out the asset's decline in value. To the extent the asset is used for a taxable purpose, a deduction may be available, under Division 40 of the ITAA 1997, for its decline in value. However some depreciating assets, depending on the circumstances of use, may qualify for capital works deductions under Division 43 of the ITAA 1997.

3. Determinations of the effective life of depreciating assets made by the Commissioner are reproduced in Tables A and B of the attached schedule. These determinations are not appropriate to calculate capital works deductions for depreciating assets that qualify for Division 43 of the ITAA 1997. Depreciating assets that qualify for capital works deductions under Division 43 may only have deductions worked out by the method specified in that Division.

4. You may choose to use the Commissioner's determination of the effective life of a depreciating asset or you may make your own estimate (see section 40-95 of the ITAA 1997). The explanation in this Ruling of the methodology used by the Commissioner in making determinations may assist taxpayers who choose to make their own estimate of effective life.

Previous Rulings

5. This Ruling replaces Taxation Ruling TR 2000/18 Income tax: depreciation effective life and all the accompanying addenda and are withdrawn on and from 1 July 2006. To the extent that the Tax Office views in those Rulings still apply, they have been incorporated into this Ruling.

Ruling

6. The Commissioner's determination of the effective life of depreciating assets set out in the schedule to TR 2000/18 ceases to be in force from 1 July 2006. If you were using an effective life from TR 2000/18 for the purpose of calculating your deduction for an asset under Division 40 of the ITAA 1997 you can continue to use that effective life.

7. The date a determination comes into force is set out in column four of Tables A and B of the attached schedule.

Acquisitions of plant pre 21 September 1999

8. For plant:

you entered into a contract to acquire;
you otherwise acquired; or
you started to construct,

before 11.45 am, by legal time in the Australian Capital Territory, on 21 September 1999, you may use the effective life for the plant set out in Taxation Ruling IT 2685 Income tax: depreciation regardless of when you first use it or have it installed ready for use.

Acquisitions of plant/depreciating assets post 21 September 1999

9. If you start to use other plant or a depreciating asset or have it installed ready for use within five years of the time (the relevant time):

you entered into the contract to acquire it;
you started to construct it; or
you otherwise acquired it,

then the determination of effective life that will apply is the one that was in force at the relevant time (see section 40-95 of the ITAA 1997).

10. If you do not start to use the plant or depreciating asset or have it installed ready for use within the required five year period as set out in paragraph 9 of this Ruling, then the determination that will apply is the one that is in force at the date you first use it or have it installed ready for use for any purpose (see section 40-95 of the ITAA 1997).

Definitions - rental properties

11. The terms 'Freestanding' and 'Fixed' are used to describe certain residential rental property assets listed in Table A of the attached schedule. For the purposes of the determination of effective life for such assets they have the following meanings:

Freestanding - items designed to be portable or movable. Any attachment to the premises is only for the item's temporary stability.
Fixed - annexed or attached by any means, for example screws, nails, bolts, glue, adhesive, grout or cement, but not merely for temporary stability.

Definitions - agriculture and services to agriculture

12. The terms ' Environmental control structure' and ' Protective structure' are used to describe certain agricultural assets listed in Table A of the attached schedule. For the purposes of the determination of effective life for such assets they have the following meanings:

Environmental control structure - is designed to provide a protective environment within which the operator is able to monitor and manipulate factors influencing the growing environment such as temperature, humidity, air movement, light, water and pests to enable the greatest efficiency in producing the desired product.
Protective structure - is a structure used primarily and principally for protecting a growing product from one or more natural elements such as sun, hail, birds and wind.

Replacements

13. It had been a longstanding practice to permit taxpayers to treat the initial purchase of certain assets as not depreciable but to claim an immediate deduction for the cost of their replacement. The practice principally related to low cost items that had very long or indeterminate lives, were difficult to keep track of, and were subject to frequent replacement through loss or breakage (for example, crockery).

14. For some taxpayers, the $300 immediate write-off provisions were replaced with a new system which applied from 1 July 2000 (see Subdivision 42-M of the ITAA 1997). Division 40 introduced a similar system from 1 July 2001 for depreciating assets. It allows certain taxpayers to pool assets costing less than $1,000 each and to write off the assets under the diminishing value method using an effective life of four years (see Subdivision 40-E of the ITAA 1997).

15. The Simplified Tax System (STS) is available to small business taxpayers from 1 July 2001. The STS allows eligible taxpayers who decide to use it, an immediate write-off for depreciating assets costing less than $1,000, and pooling arrangements for other depreciating assets.

16. The $300 immediate write-off provision was retained for assets used by taxpayers predominantly in deriving non-business income.

17. For these reasons, the replacement basis for deductions is not available for assets you first use (or have installed ready for use) for relevant purposes after 30 June 2000.

Horticultural plants

18. Horticultural plants are depreciating assets. The deduction for a horticultural plant is also based on its effective life and is available under Subdivision 40-F of the ITAA 1997.

19. The methodology used to establish the effective life of a horticultural plant involves a consideration of the factors set out in paragraph 39 of this Ruling to the extent that they are relevant. Issues such as the varieties and location of plants grown, the age planted out, the years required to come into production and the number of years production was anticipated, have been canvassed. Consumer demand for new varieties may cause commercial obsolescence and, therefore, is a major factor in determining the effective life of horticultural plants.

20. Crop management techniques, such as regeneration and topworking/reworking, where trees are cut back to the stump, have also been taken into account in determining the effective life of horticultural plants. Where topworking/reworking involves grafting a new variety onto the old root system, with the result that a new plant has been established, deductions will be based on the effective life of the new plant.

How to use this schedule

21. The entries for the effective life of assets listed under a particular industry in Table A must only be used by members of that industry. If an asset is listed in Table A under a particular industry heading and also in Table B , then you must use the industry table if you are a member of that industry. Taxpayers not in that industry must use Table B .

22. If an asset used by an industry member is not listed under its industry heading, either specifically or under the general functional group/class, then the member should use the effective life of the asset listed in Table B .

23. If an asset is not listed in either Table A or B then the Commissioner has not made a determination of its effective life and you will need to work out its effective life yourself.

Date of effect

24. This Ruling applies to schemes begun to be carried out from 1 July 2006. However, the Ruling does not apply to taxpayers to the extent that it conflicts with the terms of a settlement of a dispute agreed to before the date of issue of the Ruling.

Appendix 1 - Explanation

This Appendix is provided as information to help you understand how the Commissioner's view has been reached. It does not form part of the binding public ruling.

Background

25. This Ruling is being issued because of:

an ongoing review of the Commissioner's effective life determinations being undertaken by the Tax Office; and
a change in the system of public rulings following the enactment of the Tax Laws Amendment (Improvements to Self Assessment) Act (No. 2) 2005. The category of legally binding rulings has been expanded to cover matters about the administration and collection of particular taxes, including income tax.

26. There are periodic consolidations of Table A and B of the schedule of effective life determination to reflect changes in the Commissioner's determinations.

27. The Commissioner has made new determinations that commence on 1 July 2006 pursuant to section 40-100 of the ITAA 1997, determining the effective life of assets covered by the following descriptions:

environmental control and protective structures;
grains industry assets;
plant nursery assets;
printing industry packaging printing assets;
printing assets newspaper and publishing;
sheep meat and wool growing assets; and
turf industry assets.

28. These new determinations as well as the removal of some previous determinations, that formerly appeared in the schedules attached to TR 2000/18, along with new Australian and New Zealand Standard Industry Classification (ANZSIC) codes are now incorporated in the attached consolidated Tables A and B which are contained in the new '1 July 2006 Schedule'.

Context of Commissioner's review

29. The Commissioner advised the Review of Business Taxation, chaired by John Ralph AO, that the Tax Office would progressively update and expand the effective life schedule attached to IT 2685 to ensure it is as representative as possible. The first tranche of the review was contained in TR 2000/18 which first issued on 21 December 2000.

30. The review is continuing and will take some time to complete.

31. The review is based on extensive enquires made by the Tax Office and, in some instances, on reports prepared by independent consultants.

Basic principles of depreciation

32. From an economic point of view, business income arises from two sources:

net annual flows from business activities associated with the use of business assets and liabilities; and
the change in the market value of those business assets and liabilities.

33. Subject to tax timing rules for income recognition, increases in the market value of assets and decreases in the market value of liabilities add to business income while decreases in the market value of assets and increases in the market value of liabilities reduce business income.

34. The current taxation system, through the application of the capital allowances rules in Division 40 of the ITAA 1997, for example, already recognises the change in market value of depreciating assets in working out taxable income. In particular, recognising that the loss of market value in most depreciating assets cannot be directly measured, it allows the write off of those assets to be based on an estimate of effective life.

35. The deductions based on effective life are intended to reflect an appropriate allowance for the diminution of economic value of an asset over its period of use.

36. Where the estimate is incorrect, the balancing adjustment provisions ensure, in those cases where the depreciating asset has stopped being held or used, that the actual loss in value over the period of use is allowed as a deduction.

How does the Commissioner determine the effective life of a depreciating asset?

37. The Commissioner makes a determination of the effective life of a depreciating asset by estimating the period (in years, including fractions of years) it can be used by any entity for a taxable purpose or for the purpose of producing exempt income or non-assessable non exempt income and, if relevant for the asset:

(a)
assuming it will be subject to wear and tear at a rate that is reasonable for the Commissioner to assume;
(b)
assuming it will be maintained in reasonably good order and condition; and
(c)
having regard to the period within which it is likely to be scrapped, sold for no more than scrap or abandoned (see section 40-100 of the ITAA 1997).

38. In making a determination, the Commissioner considers the factors in paragraph 39 of this Ruling (which are not intended to be exhaustive). Where appropriate, each factor is considered on the basis of historical information and future expectations. No one factor is necessarily conclusive and the relative importance of each will vary depending on the nature of the asset. In considering these factors, the Commissioner only takes account of normal industry practices.

39. The factors the Commissioner considers in making a determination include:

the physical life of the asset;
engineering information;
the manufacturer's specifications;
the way in which the asset is used by an industry;
the past experience of users of the asset;
the level of repairs and maintenance adopted by users of the asset;
industry standards;
the use of the asset by different industries;
retention periods;
obsolescence;
scrapping or abandonment practices;
if the asset is leased, the period of the lease;
economic or financial analysis indicating the period over which that asset is intended for use; and
where the asset is actively traded in a secondary market, conditions in that market.

Physical life

40. As set out in paragraph 37 of this Ruling, subsection 40-100(4) of the ITAA 1997 requires an estimate of the period a depreciating asset can be used by any entity for the relevant purposes. It is arguable that an asset can be used for these purposes while it continues to have a physical existence, that is, until it is physically exhausted.

41. Physical life, therefore, can be seen as the outer limit of an asset's effective life and is a useful starting point for an analysis of all the factors set out in paragraph 39 of this Ruling. Historical physical life is best determined by empirical evidence.

Engineering information/manufacturer's specifications

42. An estimate of the physical life of a new asset, however, cannot be based solely on what has occurred in the past. An analysis of engineering information and manufacturer's specifications is important when estimating future physical lives. There are various reasons why the expected life of a new asset may differ from that achieved in the past. These reasons include advances in technology, different construction materials, intensity of use and the levels of repairs and maintenance.

Physical life/effective life

43. It is important to note that the Commissioner does not consider that the physical life of an asset is necessarily its effective life because, as previously mentioned, all the factors must be considered before an estimate of effective life is made. A consideration of these factors may often indicate that an asset's effective life is a period shorter than its physical life.

The way in which an asset is used by an industry/the past experience of users of the asset

44. How intensively an industry uses an asset may impact directly on the asset's effective life. To establish what the industry norm is, industry is consulted wherever possible.

45. Often assets are not used for the relevant purposes for the whole of their life. For example, assets may be retired from use for the relevant purposes but be retained as a source of spare parts. In this instance, their effective life may end at the time they are retired.

Repairs and maintenance

46. It might be suggested that the life of an asset can be extended indefinitely if there is unlimited expenditure on repairs and maintenance. However, paragraph 40-100(4)(b) of the ITAA 1997 requires the Commissioner to assume that an asset will be maintained only in reasonably good order and condition. Accordingly, the effective life of an asset may end when it is no longer economic to maintain it, even though it may still be possible to do so. To establish that point in time the industry norm is considered.

Renewals

47. Another reason why the level of repairs and maintenance is considered is to see if it is possible to ascertain a point in time when an asset has been wholly or substantially physically replaced. If an asset has been wholly or substantially physically replaced then it is considered its effective life has ended as it is, in fact, a new asset.

Industry standards

48. There may be industry standards/regulations which set the level of repairs and maintenance that must be carried out. In addition, these standards/regulations may dictate the time at which a particular asset must be retired from use by an industry. These factors are considered when building up a complete picture of the effective life of an asset.

Use of the asset by different industries

49. The use of an asset by different industries is another important factor. The use may be parallel or consecutive. An example of parallel use is the use of a car as a taxi compared to the use of a car for relevant purposes generally. In these circumstances, the Commissioner has determined that the effective lives are different. This reflects the increased wear and tear experienced by a car used as a taxi.

50. The consecutive use of an asset arises where it is used by different taxpayers for different purposes during its physical life. In determining the effective life of some assets, the period for which a particular asset can be used by any taxpayer for its intended purpose has been estimated, without regard to the possible subsequent use of the asset by another taxpayer for an entirely different purpose. However, that approach has only been taken where the subsequent change in use is significant and the proceeds received on disposal are small relative to the asset's original cost. An example of this is a shipping container which, at the end of its effective life as a shipping container, may be used for a variety of other purposes, including as a storage shed. In that situation, the container would, nevertheless, have an effective life in the hands of the purchaser when it commences to be used as a storage shed.

Retention period

51. The retention period is the period any one taxpayer generally holds an asset. Subject to paragraph 50 of this Ruling, the effective life of an asset is the total period it can be used by any entity for the relevant purposes. That may not necessarily be the period a particular taxpayer expects to hold it before replacing it. For example, it is common practice for some businesses to dispose of a car after it has done a pre-determined number of kilometres. The effective life of the car does not end at that time if it can still be effectively used as a car for the relevant purposes.

Obsolescence

52. The Commissioner considers obsolescence when determining the effective life of an asset.

53. An asset may become obsolete for both commercial and technological reasons.

54. Commercial obsolescence may occur if, for instance, market demand for the goods produced by the asset ceases through consumer preference or Government regulation. It may also occur if the raw material the asset processes becomes unavailable.

55. Technology may advance so that another asset is better suited for the relevant purpose for which an existing asset is used. The point to note about technological advances, however, is that an asset's effective life does not necessarily end with each technological advance. A taxpayer can still use an asset for the relevant purposes even though a newer model has come on to the market.

56. Obsolescence is only considered when it prevents the continued use of the asset for the relevant purposes. This is best evidenced by scrapping practices.

57. There are two types of obsolescence - that which can be predicted at the time the asset is first used (predictable) and that which emerges later (unpredictable). Clearly, unpredictable obsolescence cannot be taken into account when making an estimate of effective life. The Commissioner would only take obsolescence into account if it can be predicted with a high level of certainty across a majority of users.

58. Taxpayers faced with predictable obsolescence that impacts only on their business may choose to work out the effective lives of the assets themselves rather than adopt the effective lives determined by the Commissioner.

59. In addition, taxpayers can work out a new effective life under section 40-110 of the ITAA 1997 where facts emerge (for example, unpredictable obsolescence) during the life of the asset that mean it must be scrapped before its originally estimated effective life has ended.

Scrapping or abandonment practices

60. Once a taxpayer has scrapped or abandoned an asset, there is a presumption it can no longer be used by anyone for the relevant purposes. The scrapping of an asset demonstrates that the asset is either physically exhausted or obsolete. A taxpayer may abandon an asset if it is too difficult or costly to remove from its place of operation.

61. This factor is only relevant to the Commissioner's determination of the effective life of an asset if a general scrapping or abandonment practice can be established across users of the asset. Evidence that one group of users traditionally scraps an asset while others do not will not be sufficient to establish the asset as one that is generally scrapped for the purpose of the Commissioner's determination. However, taxpayers within the group that scrapped the asset could choose to work out the asset's effective life themselves.

Lease periods

62. Because effective life is, among other things, the period a depreciating asset can be used for the relevant purposes, it is unlikely that an asset would be leased for a period greater than its effective life. Consideration of this factor will, in many instances, suggest that the effective life of an asset is no shorter than the period it is leased.

Financial analysis

63. As with lease periods, economic or financial analysis indicating the period over which an asset is intended for use gives guidance that the effective life is no shorter than that period. In many instances, the analysis may only reflect the capital cost recovery period or the term of a contract when in fact the asset may be used for the relevant purposes by any entity for a much longer time.

Market value

64. The defining character of a depreciating asset is that its market value actually falls, or is expected to fall, over time. An analysis of the decline of market values of an asset class, therefore, is an important factor together with those set out above to ensure that a determination of effective life provides appropriate deductions.

Working out your own effective life

65. The non-exhaustive factors outlined in paragraphs 38 to 64 of this Ruling are essentially the same factors the Commissioner considers you would use if you worked out the effective life of an asset yourself. There is, however, one critical difference.

66. As mentioned in paragraph 38 of this Ruling, the Commissioner only takes account of normal industry practices when estimating effective life. However, taxpayers who choose to self-assess can take account of their own particular circumstances of use (see subsection 40-105(1) of the ITAA 1997).

67. The Commissioner only makes determinations of the effective life of new assets. The purchaser of a second-hand asset, who decides its second-hand condition justifies a shorter life than that determined by the Commissioner, can self-assess. A taxpayer who self-assesses the effective life of plant or a depreciating asset acquired after 11.45 am, by legal time in the Australian Capital Territory, on 21 September 1999 is no longer required to assume that it is new.

Rates

68. Tables A and B in the schedule attached to this Ruling contain only effective lives. Rates have not been included. Working out a rate is not a separate step in the process, but has been incorporated into the calculation formulas: see subsections 40-70(1) and 40-72(1) (diminishing value) and 40-75(1) (prime cost) of the ITAA 1997.

Structure

69. Table A of the attached schedule is an industry table which contains assets under industry headings that have, where possible, been drawn from the ANZSIC subject categories. The table lists, under each industry heading, specific assets that are peculiar to that industry or for which a special effective life is justified because of the use to which those assets are put by the industry. Under some industry headings, the list of assets also contains a general grouping or class of assets that is identified by reference to the specific industry function or process for which the assets are employed.

70. Table B is an asset table that contains generic assets which may be used by more than one industry.

71. Whilst some assets are included in both tables with the same effective life, this is the exception rather than the norm. Generally, an asset would be included in an industry list only if the Commissioner determined a different effective life for use in that industry.

New and reviewed items

72. New and reviewed items have been marked with an asterisk (*) in column 3 of Tables A and B .

Consultation

73. Industry bodies and interested taxpayers have been consulted during the course of the effective life reviews undertaken since 1999. An independent review panel has also checked each review process to confirm the level of industry consultation was appropriate. That panel presently comprises a representative from CPA Australia, the Corporate Tax Association, The Treasury, the Australian Valuation Office and the Australian Taxation Office.

Statutory caps

74. Statutory caps on the Commissioner's determined effective lives apply to certain assets. Where the Commissioner has determined effective lives for assets in excess of the statutory caps or proposed caps for those assets, they have been marked with a hash (#) in column 3 of Tables A and B .

Commissioner of Taxation
5 July 2006

Appendix 2 - Detailed contents list

75. Below is a detailed table of contents for this Ruling:

  Paragraph
What this Ruling is about 1
Previous Rulings 5
Ruling 6
Acquisitions of plant pre 21 September 1999 8
Acquisitions of plant/depreciating assets post 21 September 1999 9
Definitions, rental properties 11
Definitions, agriculture and services to agriculture 12
Replacements 13
Horticultural plants 18
How to use this schedule 21
Date of effect 24
Appendix 1 - Explanation 25
Background 25
Context of Commissioner's review 29
Basic principles of depreciation 32
How does the Commissioner determine the effective life of a depreciating asset? 37
Physical life 40
Engineering information/manufacturer's specifications 42
Physical life/effective life 43
The way in which an asset is used by an industry/the past experience of users of the asset 44
Repairs and maintenance 46
Renewals 47
Industry standards 48
Use of the asset by different industries 49
Retention period 51
Obsolescence 52
Scrapping or abandonment practices 60
Lease periods 62
Financial analysis 63
Market value 64
Working out your own effective life 65
Rates 68
Structure 69
New and reviewed items 72
Consultation 73
Statutory caps 74
Appendix 2 - Detailed contents list 75
Table A Page 21
Table B Page 112

1 July 2006 Schedule

AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHING 21
Agriculture 21
Nursery and Floriculture Production 23
Sheep, Beef Cattle and Grain Farming and Other Crop Growing 25
Forestry and logging 27
Aquaculture and fishing 27
MINING 27
Coal mining 31
Oil and gas extraction 32
Iron ore mining 35
Gold ore mining 36
Mineral sand mining 36
Nickel ore mining 37
Construction material mining 38
MANUFACTURING 38
Meat and meat product manufacturing 38
Dairy product manufacturing 40
Fruit and vegetables manufacturing 40
Grain mill and cereal product manufacturing 41
Bakery product manufacturing 41
Sugar and confectionery manufacturing 42
Beverage manufacturing 42
Cigarette and tobacco manufacturing 43
Textile, leather, clothing and footwear manufacturing 43
Log sawmilling and timber dressing 44
Plywood and veneer manufacturing 45
Reconstituted wood product manufacturing 45
Other wood product manufacturing 46
Pulp, paper and converted paper product manufacturing 46
Paper stationery manufacturing 47
Printing 48
Newspaper printing or publishing 49
Printing support services 49
Petroleum refining 51
Basic chemical and chemical product manufacturing 52
Pharmaceutical and medicinal product manufacturing 53
Cleaning compound and toiletry preparation manufacturing 54
Other basic chemical product manufacturing 54
Polymer product and rubber product manufacturing 55
Non-metallic mineral product manufacturing 55
Metal product manufacturing 56
Alumina production 57
Aluminium smelting 58
Non-ferrous metal casting 58
Motor vehicle and motor vehicle part manufacturing 59
Other transport equipment manufacturing 60
Photographic, optical and ophthalmic equipment manufacturing 60
Other professional and scientific equipment manufacturing n.e.c. 60
Furniture and other manufacturing 61
ELECTRICITY, GAS, WATER AND WASTE SERVICES 61
Electricity supply 61
Gas supply 65
Irrigation water providers 66
Water supply 66
Sewerage and drainage services 68
Waste disposal services 70
CONSTRUCTION 70
WHOLESALE TRADE 71
Wool wholesaling 71
Mineral, metal and chemical wholesaling 71
RETAIL TRADE 72
Fuel retailing 72
Food retailing 72
ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD SERVICES 73
Accommodation 73
Cafes, restaurants, takeaway food services, pubs, taverns bars and clubs (hospitality) 75
TRANSPORT AND STORAGE 76
Road transport 76
Rail transport 76
Water transport and support services 77
Airport operations and other air transport support services 79
Other transport support services n.e.c. 81
INFORMATION MEDIA AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS 81
Telecommunication services 81
Motion picture and sound recording activities 83
Motion picture exhibition 86
Radio broadcasting 87
Television broadcasting 87
Library and other information services 89
FINANCE AND INSURANCE SERVICES 89
RENTAL, HIRING AND REAL ESTATE SERVICES 90
Rental and hiring services (except real estate) 90
Residential property operators 92
Non-residential property operators 96
PROFESSIONAL,SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SERVICES 96
Surveying and mapping services 96
Veterinary services 97
ADMINISTRATIVE AND SUPPORT SERVICES 98
Building cleaning, pest control and other support services 98
EDUCATION AND TRAINING 98
HEALTH CARE AND SOCIAL ASSISTANCE 99
Hospitals 99
Dental services 101
Optometry and optical dispensing 102
Pathologist and other pathology 104
Podiatry services 104
Radiology and diagnostic imaging services 105
Specialist medical services n.e.c 106
Nursing home operation 107
ARTS AND RECREATION SERVICES 107
Heritage activities 107
Creative and performing arts activities 108
Sport, gambling and recreation services 108
OTHER SERVICES 110
Automative repair and maintenance 110
Personal and other services 110

Effective lives (Industry Categories)
Table A as at 1 July 2006

ASSET LIFE ( YEARS ) REVIEWED DATE OF APPLICATION
AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHING
(( 01110 to 05290 )
Environmental control structures (including glasshouses, hothouses, germination rooms, plastic clad tunnels and igloos) 20  *  1 Jul 2006
Protective structures (including shade houses and netting constructions) 20  *  1 Jul 2006
Agriculture
( 01110 to 01990 )
Agricultural implements and plant (general including station plant) 10   1 Jan 2001
Bacon bins (demountable pig confinement units):      
     Galvanised iron components of structure 33 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Plant installed in structure 20   1 Jan 2001
Banana ripening plant 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Bee farming plant:      
     Beehives 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Processing plant 20   1 Jan 2001
Bridges (wooden) 20   1 Jan 2001
Cotton sheds (humidification) 20   1 Jan 2001
Curing barns (tobacco, timber, peanut, corn or grain) 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Dairy farm plant (power): 20   1 Jan 2001
Fences:      
     General (including wire and wire netting used in construction of fencing) 33 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Electric 20   1 Jan 2001
Fruit-growers' plant:      
     Dips, pans, spray pumps, etc 10   1 Jan 2001
     Fumigation tents and machinery 10   1 Jan 2001
     Racks (dried fruit) 20   1 Jan 2001
     Tecto applicator (citrus anti-fungal plant) 5   1 Jan 2001
Harvester/Sweeper 6 ⅔   1 Jan 2001
Headers, self propelled (combine harvesters) 6 ⅔   1 Jan 2001
Hop growers' plant:      
     Hop picking machines 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Kilns 20   1 Jan 2001
Horse stalls (Breeze way Shed Row) 33 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Horticultural plants:      
     Citrus:      
         Grapefruit 30 * 1 Jan 2001
         Lemon 20 * 1 Jan 2001
         Limes 20 * 1 Jan 2001
         Mandarin 25 * 1 Jan 2001
         Orange 30 * 1 Jan 2001
     Grapevines, dried 15 * 1 Oct 2004
     Grapevines, table 15 * 1 Oct 2004
     Grapevines, wine 20 * 1 Oct 2004
     Nuts:      
         Almond 25 * 1 Jul 2001
         Cashew 25 * 1 Jul 2001
         Chestnut 25 * 1 Jul 2001
         Hazelnut 25 * 1 Jul 2001
         Jojoba 30 * 1 Jul 2001
         Macadamia 25 * 1 Jul 2001
         Pecan 25 * 1 Jul 2001
         Pistachio 25 * 1 Jul 2001
         Walnut 25 * 1 Jul 2001
     Pome:      
         Apple 20 * 1 Jan 2001
         Pear 25 * 1 Jan 2001
     Stone Fruit:      
         Apricots 10 * 1 Jan 2001
         Cherries 18 * 1 Jan 2001
         Nectarine 10 * 1 Jan 2001
         Olives 30 * 1 Jan 2001
         Peach 10 * 1 Jan 2001
         Plum 15 * 1 Jan 2001
         Prune 20 * 1 Jan 2001
     Tropical:      
         Avocado 20 * 1 Jan 2001
         Mango 30 * 1 Jan 2001
Irrigation plant and equipment:      
     Metal piping 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Other piping (including concrete channels but not earth channels) 20   1 Jan 2001
     Other plant 20   1 Jan 2001
Levee banks and revetments 40   1 Jan 2001
Motor cycles (used for mustering, maintenance of fences, etc) 3   1 Jan 2001
Mushroom growers' plant:      
     Air conditioning plant 6 ⅔   1 Jan 2001
     Buildings:      
         Peak heat, spawn running and growing rooms 10   1 Jan 2001
         Other:      
             Timber or steel frame 33 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
             Brick, stone or concrete walls 50   1 Jan 2001
     Compost preparation plant 6 ⅔   1 Jan 2001
     General plant (including spraying, watering and pumping equipment) 6 ⅔   1 Jan 2001
     Growing trays 6 ⅔   1 Jan 2001
Pea-viners, pea cleaners, vine and straw conveyors 10   1 Jan 2001
Peanut blanching plant:      
     Air piping 20   1 Jan 2001
     Blanchers 10   1 Jan 2001
     Colour sorter (electronic) 10   1 Jan 2001
     Control panel 20   1 Jan 2001
     Cooling equipment (including control panel) 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Elevators 10   1 Jan 2001
     Exhaust fans 20   1 Jan 2001
     Fumigation equipment 10   1 Jan 2001
     Pal boxes 3   1 Jan 2001
     Plant water services 50   1 Jan 2001
     Roaster and dryer 10   1 Jan 2001
     Scales 20   1 Jan 2001
     Storage surge bins 20   1 Jan 2001
     Tipping unit 20   1 Jan 2001
     Transformers 40   1 Jan 2001
     Vibrating conveyors 10   1 Jan 2001
Poultry farmers' plant (incubators) 20   1 Jan 2001
Silos:      
     Ancillary equipment 20   1 Jan 2001
     Grain (metal) 30 * 1 Jul 2001
Stockyards, pens, lairages 20   1 Jan 2001
Stud stock and thoroughbred horses 10   1 Jan 2001
Trellis 20   1 Jan 2001
Vegetable processing equipment 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Water tower (brick) 100   1 Jan 2001
Nursery and floriculture production
(01110 to 01150)
Chemical spraying assets:      
     Generally (including broad acre trailed or linkage boom and utility) 10  *  1 Jul 2006
Environmental control assets:      
     Boilers (including piping) 20  *  1 Jul 2006
     Control systems 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Evaporative coolers 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Heating assets 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Instruments (including sensors) 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Retractable screens 8  *  1 Jul 2006
     Ventilation fans 5  *  1 Jul 2006
Fertigation system assets (incorporating control systems, pumps and tanks) 10  *  1 Jul 2006
General assets:      
     Bins and pallets 5  *  1 Jul 2006
     Fertiliser spreaders 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Fumigation assets 5  *  1 Jul 2006
     Pasteurisation assets:      
         Pasteurisation rooms 20  *  1 Jul 2006
         Steam boilers 15  *  1 Jul 2006
     Racks 15  *  1 Jul 2006
     Ride on mowers 5  *  1 Jul 2006
     Refrigeration assets:      
         Insulation panels used in cool rooms 40  *  1 Jul 2006
         Refrigeration generally 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Trailers 15  *  1 Jul 2006
     Trolleys 15  *  1 Jul 2006
     Weed mats 5  *  1 Jul 2006
Harvesting assets:      
     Bed lifters and diggers 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Tree spades 15  *  1 Jul 2006
Packaging assets:      
     Deleafers 15  *  1 Jul 2006
     Bunching and bundling machines 15  *  1 Jul 2006
     Grading machines 15  *  1 Jul 2006
Planting assets:      
     Benches and tables 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Conveyors 15  *  1 Jul 2006
     Dibblers and seeders 15  *  1 Jul 2006
     Hoppers 15  *  1 Jul 2006
     Pot, punnet and tray dispensers 12  *  1 Jul 2006
     Potting machines (including pot and bag fillers) 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Soil elevators 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Soil mixers 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Transplanters (plugs and seedlings) 8  *  1 Jul 2006
     Tray and punnet fillers 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Tray washers 15  *  1 Jul 2006
     Vermiculite dispensers and coverers 15  *  1 Jul 2006
Propagation assets:      
     Heated propagators 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Seedling and punnet trays, reusable 3  *  1 Jul 2006
Turf growing assets:      
     Chemical spraying assets:      
         Generally (including broad acre trailed or linkage boom and utility) 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Fertiliser spreaders 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Field top makers 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Land planes 25  *  1 Jul 2006
     Line planters 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Mowers (including reel and rotary mowers) 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Net layers 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Power harrows 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Roll layers 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Soil aerators 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Trailers 15  *  1 Jul 2006
     Turf harvesters (including pedestrian and tractor mounted harvesters) 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Turf rollers 15  *  1 Jul 2006
     Turf seeders 15  *  1 Jul 2006
     Turf vacuums 10  *  1 Jul 2006
Sheep, beef cattle and grain farming and other crop growing
(01410 to 01590)
Grain, cotton, peanut and rice assets:      
     Chemical spraying assets:      
         Generally (including broad acre trailed or linkage boom and utility) 10  *  1 Jul 2006
         Self-propelled 8  *  1 Jul 2006
     General assets:      
         Aeration assets:      
             Controllers 10  *  1 Jul 2006
             Kits 15  *  1 Jul 2006
         Dryers 20  *  1 Jul 2006
         Moisture meters 5  *  1 Jul 2006
         Mulchers 10  *  1 Jul 2006
         Peanut pre-cleaners 10  *  1 Jul 2006
         Slashers 7  *  1 Jul 2006
     Harvesting assets:      
         Boll buggies 15  *  1 Jul 2006
         Chaser bins 15  *  1 Jul 2006
         Field bins 20  *  1 Jul 2006
         Fuel trailers 15  *  1 Jul 2006
         Module builders 15  *  1 Jul 2006
         Module tarpaulins 5  *  1 Jul 2006
         Peanut diggers (including peanut pullers) 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Precision farming assets (including GPS, controllers, lightbars, variable rate technology assets) (excluding hydraulic automated steering) 5  *  1 Jul 2006
     Seeding and fertilizing assets:      
         Fertilizer spreaders (including linkage and trailed) 10  *  1 Jul 2006
         Planters (including bar, box, combined seeders, precision planters and row crop planters) 15  *  1 Jul 2006
         Seed and fertilizer bins 15  *  1 Jul 2006
     Tillage assets:      
         Generally 15  *  1 Jul 2006
         Harrows 5  *  1 Jul 2006
         Laser controlled scraping assets:      
             Transmitters 7  *  1 Jul 2006
             Buckets 10  *  1 Jul 2006
         Rippers 10  *  1 Jul 2006
Sheep farming assets:        
    Crutching machines, portable type 10  *  1 Jul 2006
    Dipping and spraying assets for parasite control:      
         Jet spray system assets (including the race or handler dedicated to the jet spray system) 10  *  1 Jul 2006
         Mobile plunge dips 5  *  1 Jul 2006
    Feeders (including grain feeders, oat feeders, hay feeders) 15  *  1 Jul 2006
    Footbaths 10  *  1 Jul 2006
    Instruments for measuring wool fibre fineness, laser type 10  *  1 Jul 2006
    Instruments for measuring backfat or eye muscle or detecting pregnancy, ultrasound type (incorporating probe and monitor) 5  *  1 Jul 2006
    Sheep handling assets (including autodrafter, conveyor, cradle, crate, crutching trailer, elevator, ewe lifter, handler, hydraulic lift, rollover unit, shearing table, weigh crate, winch used to lift sheep) 15  *  1 Jul 2006
    Weigh bars, weigh indicators and weigh platforms 10  *  1 Jul 2006
    Yards, races, leadup systems and loading ramps:      
         Permanent type 40  *  1 Jul 2006
         Portable type 25  *  1 Jul 2006
    Woolshed assets:      
         Grinding machine for sharpening cutters 30  *  1 Jul 2006
         Shearing machines 30  *  1 Jul 2006
         Shearing or crutching handpieces 10  *  1 Jul 2006
         Wool bale movers 10  *  1 Jul 2006
         Woolpresses 20  *  1 Jul 2006
         Woolsheds and shearing sheds 50  *  1 Jul 2006
         Wool tables, steel type 20  *  1 Jul 2006
Forestry and logging
( 03010 to 03020 )
Logging plant:      
     Cable system (including winches and high leads) 8 * 1 Jan 2001
     Forwarders 8 * 1 Jan 2001
     Harvesters and feller bunchers (includes heads) 7 * 1 Jan 2001
     Log trailers 10 * 1 Jan 2001
     Saws:      
         Mobile 8 * 1 Jan 2001
         Portable chain 2 * 1 Jan 2001
     Snigging plant (including cable and grapple skidders, wheel loaders with log grabs, bulldozers, excavators, arches and winches) 7 * 1 Jan 2001
Aquaculture and fishing
( 02011 to 02039 and 04111 to 04199 )
Fish farming ponds (earth and clay) 20   1 Jan 2001
Fishing plant:      
     Boats 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Fish holding baskets 10   1 Jan 2001
     Purse seine fishing net 5   1 Jan 2001
Pearling and oyster fishing plant:      
     Luggers (oyster fishing) 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Pearling boats 20   1 Jan 2001
     Pumps 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Prawn farming ponds and plant 20   1 Jan 2001
ASSET LIFE ( YEARS ) REVIEWED DATE OF APPLICATION
MINING
( 06000 to 10900 )
Crushing and milling assets:      
     Crushers:      
         Cone and gyratory 25 * 1 Jul 2003
         Feeder breaker 20 * 1 Jul 2003
         Generally 25 * 1 Jul 2003
         Impact and rotary 20 * 1 Jul 2003
         Jaw 25 * 1 Jul 2003
         Roller (including roll sizers) 20 * 1 Jul 2003
     Grinding mills:      
         Ball and rod 25 * 1 Jul 2003
         Generally 25 * 1 Jul 2003
         Hammer 15 * 1 Jul 2003
         SAG (autogenous) 25 * 1 Jul 2003
Hydrometallurgy and Pyrometallurgy assets:      
     Adsorption process assets 20 * 1 Jul 2003
     Agglomeration (pelletizing) assets 25 * 1 Jul 2003
     Calcination process assets (including kilns) 25 * 1 Jul 2003
     Casting process assets for casting billets or ingots 30 * 1 Jul 2003
     Converting process assets (including rotatable cylindrical furnaces) 30 * 1 Jul 2003
     Cooling process assets (including cooling towers) 25 * 1 Jul 2003
     Counter current decantation (CCD) process assets 20 * 1 Jul 2003
     Drying process assets (including rotary dryers, spray dryers and indirect heat exchanger dryers) 25 * 1 Jul 2003
     Electrolysis process assets (including electrowinning process and electro refining process assets including tanks) 20 * 1 Jul 2003
     Filtration process assets 15 * 1 Jul 2003
     Gas cleaning process assets (including electrostatic precipitators and baghouses) 20 * 1 Jul 2003
     Gas recovery process assets (including stripping and absorption assets) 25 * 1 Jul 2003
     Ion exchange process assets 15 * 1 Jul 2003
     Leaching process assets:      
         Atmospheric 15 * 1 Jul 2003
         Generally 25 * 1 Jul 2003
         Pressure 25 * 1 Jul 2003
     Neutralisation process assets 20 * 1 Jul 2003
     Pots and ladles used for molten materials 30 * 1 Jul 2003
     Precipitation process assets (including tanks and agitators) 20 * 1 Jul 2003
     Pressure vessels 30 * 1 Jul 2003
     Roasting process assets (including kilns and furnaces) 30 * 1 Jul 2003
     Sintering process assets (including continuous sintering machines) 30 * 1 Jul 2003
     Smelting process assets (including furnaces) 25 * 1 Jul 2003
     Solution treatment and metal recovery assets 20 * 1 Jul 2003
     Solvent extraction process assets (including mixer-settler units) 20 * 1 Jul 2003
     Tailings stills 20 * 1 Jul 2003
Infrastructure support assets:      
     Compressors 15 * 1 Jul 2003
     Control systems and communication systems assets:      
         Generally 10 * 1 Jul 2003
         Instruments 10 * 1 Jul 2003
         Towers or other supporting structures 30 * 1 Jul 2003
     Electrical infrastructure assets (including power reticulation, substations, switchgear and transformers) 25 * 1 Jul 2003
     Mineral treatment structure 40 * 1 Jul 2003
     Pipes and pipelines (including valves and fittings):      
         Generally 25 * 1 Jul 2003
         Slurry pipework within processing facility - (including slurry pipe to thickener) 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Pumps:   * 1 Jul 2003
         Generally 20 * 1 Jul 2003
         Positive displacement pumps 15 * 1 Jul 2003
Materials handling assets:      
     Belt magnets, samplers, metal detectors and analysers 15 * 1 Jul 2003
     Bins, chutes, hoppers, bunkers and silos 30 * 1 Jul 2003
     Bucket elevators 25 * 1 Jul 2003
     Conveyors 25 * 1 Jul 2003
     Feeders:      
         Generally (including apron and belt) 20 * 1 Jul 2003
         Vibrating 15 * 1 Jul 2003
     Fuel storage tanks 30 * 1 Jul 2003
     Gas storage tanks and spheres 25 * 1 Jul 2003
     Grizzly bars and scalpers; 25 * 1 Jul 2003
     Overhead crane/gantry 30 * 1 Jul 2003
     Stack (chimney) 30 * 1 Jul 2003
     Stockpile assets:      
         Reclaim tunnel flow valves and activators 25 * 1 Jul 2003
         Stackers, reclaimers and stacker/reclaimers 25 * 1 Jul 2003
         Train loaders 30 * 1 Jul 2003
         Tripper/stacker and stacking conveyor systems 25 * 1 Jul 2003
         Tunnel vent and exhaust fans 15 * 1 Jul 2003
     Water recycling facility 20 * 1 Jul 2003
     Water storage tanks 30 * 1 Jul 2003
     Weighing machines (including weighers for feeders and conveyors) 20 * 1 Jul 2004
Mineral dressing assets:      
     Classification, gravity separation and dewatering assets:      
         Centrifuges 15 * 1 Jul 2003
         Cyclones:      
             Dense medium and heavy medium 8 * 1 Jul 2003
             Generally (including classifying, desliming, and hydrocyclones) 15 * 1 Jul 2003
         Generally 18 * 1 Jul 2003
         Hydraulic classifiers and teetered bed separators 20 * 1 Jul 2003
         Jigs 25 * 1 Jul 2003
         Pneumatic tables and air separators 25 * 1 Jul 2003
         Settling cones 25 * 1 Jul 2003
         Shaking tables 25 * 1 Jul 2003
         Sluices and cone concentrators 25 * 1 Jul 2003
         Spirals 12 * 1 Jul 2003
     Electrostatic separation assets 20 * 1 Jul 2003
     Filtration assets (including pressure filtration and vacuum filtration equipment) 15 * 1 Jul 2003
     Flotation assets (including tanks, launders, agitators, air supply and reagent dosing equipment) 20 * 1 Jul 2003
     Magnetic separation assets (including cross belt, drum and disc types) 20 * 1 Jul 2003
     Screening assets 15 * 1 Jul 2003
     Thickening assets 25 * 1 Jul 2003
Port assets - see Table A Water transport and Water transport services (48100 to 48200) and (52110 to 52190)   * 1 Jul 2002
Railway infrastructure assets and rolling-stock - see Table A Rail transport (47100)   * 1 Jan 2002
Surface mobile mining machines:      
     Bucket wheel excavators 30 * 1 Jul 2002
     Compressors 20 * 1 Jul 2002
     Cranes 20 * 1 Jul 2002
     Dozers 9 * 1 Jul 2002
     Draglines 30 * 1 Jul 2002
     Drill rigs (Production) 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Electric rope shovels 25 * 1 Jul 2002
     Generators 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Graders 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Hydraulic excavators (including hydraulic front - shovels) 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Lighting system 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Off highway trucks (including articulated, rigid- dump, service, fuel and water trucks) 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Rollers 15 * 1 Jul 2002
     Scrapers 7 * 1 Jul 2002
     Skid steer loader 7 * 1 Jul 2002
     Tool carrier 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Wheel loader 8 * 1 Jul 2002
Tailings dams 20   1 Jan 2001
Underground mobile mining machines:      
     Compressors 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Continuous haulage system 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Continuous miner 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Drill rigs:      
         Diamond 20 * 1 Jul 2002
         Production 7 * 1 Jul 2002
     Feeder breaker 15 * 1 Jul 2002
     Grader 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Jumbo 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Load-haul-dump machine 6 * 1 Jul 2002
     Long-wall equipment:      
         Armoured face conveyor 6 * 1 Jul 2002
         Beam stage loader 7 * 1 Jul 2002
         Hydraulic pump module 15 * 1 Jul 2002
         Hydraulic roof support 10 * 1 Jul 2002
         Impact crusher 10 * 1 Jul 2002
         Mobile conveyor tail end 5 * 1 Jul 2002
         Roof support relocation vehicle 10 * 1 Jul 2002
         Shearer 7 * 1 Jul 2002
         Shearer carrier 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Maintenance vehicle 8 * 1 Jul 2002
     Personnel transporter 8 * 1 Jul 2002
     Raise borers and down reamers 20 * 1 Jul 2002
     Roof bolters 8 * 1 Jul 2002
     Scissor lift 6 * 1 Jul 2002
     Shuttle car 12 * 1 Jul 2002
     Skid steer loader 12 * 1 Jul 2002
     Underground haulage trucks 6 * 1 Jul 2002
     Wheel loader 6 * 1 Jul 2002
Workshop plant 20   1 Jan 2001
Coal mining
( 06000 )
Coal preparation assets:      
     Centrifuges 15 * 1 Jul 2003
     Crushing assets (including feeder breakers, impact, roller and rotary crushers) 20 * 1 Jul 2003
     Cyclones:      
         Dense medium, heavy medium 6 * 1 Jul 2003
         Generally (including classifying, desliming and hydrocyclones) 10 * 1 Jul 2003
     Filtration assets (including belt, drum and vacuum filters) 15 * 1 Jul 2003
     Flotation assets (including agitation air supply systems, launders, reagent dosing systems and tanks) 20 * 1 Jul 2003
     Grizzly bars and scalpers 25 * 1 Jul 2003
     Jigs and heavy medium baths 25 * 1 Jul 2003
     Magnetic separators 20 * 1 Jul 2003
     Spirals 12 * 1 Jul 2003
     Thickening assets 25 * 1 Jul 2003
Infrastructure support assets:      
     Analysers, belt magnets, grinding mills, metal detectors and samplers 15 * 1 Jul 2003
     Coal preparation facility framework/structure 40 * 1 Jul 2003
     Compressors 15 * 1 Jul 2003
     Control systems and communication systems assets:      
         Generally 10 * 1 Jul 2003
         Instruments 10 * 1 Jul 2003
         Towers or other supporting structures 30 * 1 Jul 2003
     Electrical infrastructure assets (including reticulation assets, substations, switch gear and transformers) 25 * 1 Jul 2003
     Fuel storage tanks 30 * 1 Jul 2003
     Gas storage tanks 25 * 1 Jul 2003
     Overhead crane/gantry 30 * 1 Jul 2003
     Pipes and pipelines (including valves and fittings):      
         Generally 25 * 1 Jul 2003
         Slurry pipework within processing facility - - - (including slurry pipe to thickener) 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Pumps:      
         Generally (including centrifugal pumps) 20 * 1 Jul 2003
         Positive displacement pumps 15 * 1 Jul 2003
     Train loaders 30 * 1 Jul 2003
     Tunnel vent or exhaust fans 15 * 1 Jul 2003
     Valves and other non pipe fittings 10 * 1 Jul 2003
     Water recycling facility 20 * 1 Jul 2003
     Water storage dams (including fire services dams and water storage dams generally) 30 * 1 Jul 2003
     Water storage tanks 30 * 1 Jul 2003
Materials handling assets:      
     Bins, chutes, hoppers, silos and storage bunkers 30 * 1 Jul 2003
     Bucket elevators 25 * 1 Jul 2003
     Conveyors 25 * 1 Jul 2003
     Feeders:      
         Generally (including apron and belt feeders) 20 * 1 Jul 2003
         Vibrating feeders 15 * 1 Jul 2003
     Stockpile spraying system 20 * 1 Jul 2003
     Stockpile stackers, reclaimers and stacker reclaimers:      
         Generally (including all machinery) 25 * 1 Jul 2003
         Reclaim tunnels 25 * 1 Jul 2003
         Tripper/stacker 25 * 1 Jul 2003
Oil and gas extraction
( 07000 )
Assets used to manufacture condensate, crude oil, domestic gas, liquid natural gas (LNG) or liquid petroleum gas (LPG) but not if the manufacture occurs in an oil refinery:      
     Control systems 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Domestic gas processing assets (including - centrifugal compressor, column, gas turbine, - heat exchanger, piping and turbo expander) 30 * # 1 Jul 2002
     Electricity generation assets - see Table A - Electricity supply (26110 to 26400)      
     Flare tower for gas flare 25 * # 1 Jul 2002
     Fractionation train assets (including air cooler, - column, compressor, heat exchanger, piping and - pumps) 30 * # 1 Jul 2002
     Hot water system assets 17 ½ * # 1 Jul 2002
     Instruments 12 ½ * 1 Jul 2002
     LNG holding facility assets (including boil off - gas compressor, cryogenic storage tank, loading - arm, pumps and tank) 30 * # 1 Jul 2002
     LNG train assets (including centrifugal - compressor, column, cryogenic heat exchanger, - gas turbine driver and other heat exchangers) 30 * # 1 Jul 2002
     Stabiliser process assets (including column, heat - exchanger, pumps and reciprocating compressor) 30 * # 1 Jul 2002
     Storage and loading assets (including cryogenic - storage tank, jetty, loading arm, LPG chiller and - pumps) 30 * # 1 Jul 2002
     Trunkline onshore terminal (TOT) assets:      
         Flash tanks 20 * # 1 Jul 2002
         Slugcatcher and associated piping 30 * # 1 Jul 2002
         Valves including control valves 12 ½ * 1 Jul 2002
Gas production assets:      
     Central production facility assets:      
         Boiler 10 * 1 Jul 2002
         Cabling for power and control system 30 * # 1 Jul 2002
         Diesel system 15 * 1 Jul 2002
         Drains system 20 * # 1 Jul 2002
         Drill rig 10 * 1 Jul 2002
         Flare system assets:      
             Carbon steel piping 15 * 1 Jul 2002
             Flare tip 5 * 1 Jul 2002
             Stainless steel piping 30 * # 1 Jul 2002
         Fuel gas system 30 * # 1 Jul 2002
         Gas compression and reinjection assets:      
             Gas compressor used offshore 10 * 1 Jul 2002
             Gas turbine driver used offshore 12 ½ * 1 Jul 2002
             Power turbine used offshore 12 ½ * 1 Jul 2002
             Generally (including piping, skid, vessels and assets used onshore) 30 * # 1 Jul 2002
         Heat exchanger 30 * # 1 Jul 2002
         Major carbon steel vessels 12 ½ * 1 Jul 2002
         Major stainless steel (or lined) vessels 30 * # 1 Jul 2002
         Offshore platform:      
             Generally (including accommodation module, flare structure, helideck, jacket primary steel work and topsides secondary steel work) 30 * # 1 Jul 2002
             Topsides tertiary steelwork (including handrails, ladders and stairs) 15 * 1 Jul 2002
         Piping 30 * # 1 Jul 2002
         Pump:      
             Circulation pump 12 ½ * 1 Jul 2002
             Generally 20 * # 1 Jul 2002
             Seawater lift pump 15 * 1 Jul 2002
         Shutdown and fire/gas system 15 * 1 Jul 2002
         Tempered water system assets:      
             Chemical treatment assets 12 ½ * 1 Jul 2002
             Piping and vessels 30 * # 1 Jul 2002
         Utility air compressors 15 * 1 Jul 2002
     Control systems 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Electricity generation assets - see Table A Electricity supply (26110 to 26400)   * 1 Jul 2002
     Floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel (incorporating mooring system) 20 * # 1 Jul 2002
     Floating storage and offloading (FSO) vessel (incorporating mooring system) 20 * # 1 Jul 2002
     Infield pipeline 30 * # 1 Jul 2002
     Instruments (including level, pressure and temperature indicators) 12 ½ * 1 Jul 2002
     Offshore bulk loading transfer system 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Subsea production assets (including control umbilical, flowline and manifold) 20 * # 1 Jul 2002
     Trunkline 30 * # 1 Jul 2002
     Valve 12 ½ * 1 Jul 2002
     Well and downhole equipment 15 * 1 Jul 2002
     Wellhead and christmas tree 30 * # 1 Jul 2002
Oil exploration plant and equipment:      
     Oil rigs (off-shore drilling) and ancillary equipment 10   1 Jan 2001
     Oil search equipment (used for geophysical surveys in remote areas):      
         Drilling plant and down-hole equipment 5   1 Jan 2001
         General plant and equipment 10   1 Jan 2001
         Mobile units and vehicles (other than passenger cars) 5   1 Jan 2001
         Other survey equipment 10   1 Jan 2001
         Portable sleeping and messing huts 5   1 Jan 2001
         Seismic survey equipment 5   1 Jan 2001
     Vessel (supply) 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Oil production assets:      
     Central production facility assets (excluding FPSOs):      
         Boiler 10 * 1 Jul 2002
         Circulation pump 12 ½ * 1 Jul 2002
         Drill rig 10 * 1 Jul 2002
         Flare tip 5 * 1 Jul 2002
         Gas compression and reinjection assets:      
             Gas compressor used offshore 10 * 1 Jul 2002
             Gas turbine driver used offshore 12 ½ * 1 Jul 2002
             Power turbine used offshore 12 ½ * 1 Jul 2002
             Generally (including piping, skid, vessels and assets used onshore) 15 * 1 Jul 2002
         Generally (including offshore platform) 15 * 1 Jul 2002
         Major carbon steel vessels 12 ½ * 1 Jul 2002
         Pump:      
             Circulation pump 12 ½ * 1 Jul 2002
             Other 15 * 1 Jul 2002
         Tempered water system assets:      
             Chemical treatment assets 12 ½ * 1 Jul 2002
             Piping and vessels 15 * 1 Jul 2002
     Control systems 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Electricity generation assets - see Table A - Electricity supply (36100)   * 1 Jul 2002
     Floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) - vessel (incorporating mooring system) 20 * # 1 Jul 2002
     Floating storage and offloading (FSO) vessel - (incorporating mooring system) 20 * # 1 Jul 2002
     Infield pipeline 15 * 1 Jul 2002
     Instruments (including level, pressure and - temperature indicators) 12 ½ * 1 Jul 2002
     Offshore bulk loading transfer system 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Subsea production assets (including control - umbilical, flowline and manifold) 15 * 1 Jul 2002
     Trunkline 30 * # 1 Jul 2002
     Valve 12 ½ * 1 Jul 2002
     Well and downhole equipment 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Wellhead and christmas tree 15 * 1 Jul 2002
Port Assets - see Table A Water transport and Water transport services (48100 to 48200) and (52110 to 52190)   * 1 Jul 2002
Iron ore mining
( 08010 )
Infrastructure support assets:      
     Blowers, high pressure 15 * 1 Jan 2006
     Dust suppression/control equipment 15 * 1 Jan 2006
Materials handling assets:      
     Feeders:      
         Vibrating 10 * 1 Jan 2006
Mineral dressing assets:      
     Cyclones, dense/heavy medium (unlined nihard) 1 * 1 Jan 2006
     Dense medium separation assets (including baths and drums) 20 * 1 Jan 2006
     Magnetic separation assets:      
         LIMS (low intensity magnetic separators) 20 * 1 Jan 2006
         WHIMS (wet high intensity magnetic separators) 15 * 1 Jan 2006
     Screening assets 10 * 1 Jan 2006
Gold ore mining
( 08040 )
Gold ore processing assets:      
     Adsorption process assets 15 * 1 Jul 2004
     Carbon regeneration kilns 12 * 1 Jul 2004
     Concentrators (including inline pressure jigs and mechanical concentrators) 10 * 1 Jul 2004
     Crushing assets:      
         Cone/gyratory crushers 20 * 1 Jul 2004
         Hydraulic rock breakers 12 * 1 Jul 2004
         Jaw crushers 20 * 1 Jul 2004
     Electrowinning/electrorefining assets 17 * 1 Jul 2004
     Elution columns 12 * 1 Jul 2004
     Elution storage tanks 17 * 1 Jul 2004
     Laboratory assets:      
         Atmospheric adsorption spectrometers 10 * 1 Jul 2004
         Generally (including drying ovens, pulverisers, crushers, gas fired ovens, fume cupboards) 15 * 1 Jul 2004
     Leaching process assets (including carbon in pulp - and carbon in leach processes) 15 * 1 Jul 2004
     Shaking tables 12 * 1 Jul 2004
     Smelting furnaces 15 * 1 Jul 2004
     Thickening assets 20 * 1 Jul 2004
Mineral sand mining
( 08050 )
Aeration assets (including aerators, attritioners, blowers and turbine impeller agitated vessels) 20 * 1 Jan 2003
Classification and gravity separation assets (including centrifuges, cones, cyclones, screw classifiers, spirals and tables) 15 * 1 Jan 2003
Crushing assets (including drum scrubbers) 30 * 1 Jan 2003
Dredges 20 * 1 Jan 2003
Drying assets:      
     Generally (including flash and fluid bed dryers and fluid bed heaters) 20 * 1 Jan 2003
     Rotary dryer kilns 30 * 1 Jan 2003
Dust management assets:      
     Baghouse filters and extractors 30 * 1 Jan 2003
     Cyclones 15 * 1 Jan 2003
     Multiclones 20 * 1 Jan 2003
Electrostatic separation assets (including curve plates, electrostatic roll separators, high tension roll separators and screen plates) 20 * 1 Jan 2003
Filtration/Dewatering assets (including candle filter presses, dewatering towers, horizontal belt filters and hydrocyclones) 15 * 1 Jan 2003
Magnetic separation assets (including belt and drum separators, electromagnetic separators, induced roll and rare earth magnetic separators and wet high intensity magnets) 20 * 1 Jan 2003
Materials handling assets (including bins, bucket and conveying elevators, conveyors, feeders, hoppers, loading systems, paddle mixers and tailings stackers) 30 * 1 Jan 2003
Screening assets (including screens and trommels) 15 * 1 Jan 2003
Support assets:      
     Control systems 10 * 1 Jan 2003
     Pipes and pipelines (including valves and fittings):      
         Generally 20 * 1 Jan 2003
         Slurry pipework within processing facility (including slurry pipe to thickener) 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Pumps 20 * 1 Jan 2003
     Tanks:      
         Constant density and thickening 20 * 1 Jan 2003
         Generally (including acid leaching and water) 15 * 1 Jan 2003
Thermal reduction assets (including cooler kilns, cooling towers, heat exchangers and reduction kilns) 30 * 1 Jan 2003
Waste gas handling assets:      
     Afterburners 20 * 1 Jan 2003
     Cyclones 15 * 1 Jan 2003
     Electrostatic precipitators 30 * 1 Jan 2003
     Scrubbers and stacks 20 * 1 Jan 2003
Nickel ore mining
( 08060 )
Nickel ore processing assets:      
     Mineral treatment structure (including structures holding walkways, supporting assets and thoroughfares) 20 * 1 Jul 2004
     Reagent pumps (including high pressure acid leach pumps) 5 * 1 Jul 2004
Construction material mining
( 09110 to 09190 )
Control systems (for conveying, crushing and screening assets) 10 * 1 Jul 2003
Conveyors:      
     Gravity take-up 25 * 1 Jul 2003
     Screw take-up 15 * 1 Jul 2003
Crushers:      
     Generally 20 * 1 Jul 2003
     Mobile (track or wheel mounted machinery including screening and conveying components) 15 * 1 Jul 2003
Cyclones 15 * 1 Jul 2003
Dredges 20 * 1 Jul 2003
Drill rigs 8 * 1 Jul 2003
Electrical switching assets 20 * 1 Jul 2003
Graders 15 * 1 Jul 2003
Heavy mobile quarry assets not specifically listed - see Table A Mining (06000 to 10900)   * 1 Jul 2003
Hydraulic oversize-rock breakers (mounted above primary crusher) 8 * 1 Jul 2003
Material handling assets (including chutes, feeders, hoppers, product bins and surge bins) 20 * 1 Jul 2003
Pug mills 15 * 1 Jul 2003
Screening assets 12 * 1 Jul 2003
Wheel loaders 10 * 1 Jul 2003
Wire saws 10 * 1 Jul 2003
ASSET LIFE ( YEARS ) REVIEWED DATE OF APPLICATION
MANUFACTURING
( 11110 to 25990 )
Meat and meat product manufacturing
( 11110 to 11130 )
Bacon manufacture:      
     Bacon bins (demountable pig confinement units):      
         Galvanised iron components of structure 33 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
         Plant installed in structure 20   1 Jan 2001
     Curing plant:      
         Fixtures (including overhead tracking) 20   1 Jan 2001
         Other 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Factory building (40 percent of the total cost of the building is regarded as an integral part of plant and machinery):      
         Brick, stone or concrete structure 100   1 Jan 2001
         Wooden structure 20   1 Jan 2001
Butchers' plant 20   1 Jan 2001
Meat works plant:      
     Building (66 ⅔ per cent of the total cost of the building (including slaughter houses, chillers, freezing rooms, cooling rooms, blast tunnels, boning and packing rooms) is regarded as an integral part of plant and machinery):      
         Brick, stone and concrete structures 100   1 Jan 2001
         Wooden structures 20   1 Jan 2001
         Stock-yards, pens and lairages (both timber and steel, but excluding concrete stockyard floors) 20   1 Jan 2001
     General plant 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Poultry processing plant:      
     Conveyor systems and troughing 20   1 Jan 2001
     Refrigeration plant and boiler 10   1 Jan 2001
     General plant 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Rendering plant:      
     Bagging/weigh batching machine 10 * 1 Jan 2001
     Bins (includes raw material bins, charging hopper/feedbin, cake bin and holding bin) 15 * 1 Jan 2001
     Blood drying equipment (includes blood holding tank, agitated holding tank, coagulator, drier, decanter and dried blood hopper) 10 * 1 Jan 2001
     Cookers and driers (includes batch cooker, continuous cooker, continuous drier and pre-heater) 15 * 1 Jan 2001
     Decanter/centrifuge 12 * 1 Jan 2001
     Environmental control equipment (includes condenser and associated equipment, bio-filter, air scrubber, after-burner and dissolved air flotation system) 10 * 1 Jan 2001
     Feathrolyser/feather hydrolyser 10 * 1 Jan 2001
     Magnet 15 * 1 Jan 2001
     Mill 10 * 1 Jan 2001
     Mincer/grinder 5 * 1 Jan 2001
     Pans and screens (includes percolator pans/screen and shaker screen) 15 * 1 Jan 2001
     Pre-breaker/pre-hogger 10 * 1 Jan 2001
     Screw and bucket elevators 10 * 1 Jan 2001
     Screw press/expeller press 13 * 1 Jan 2001
     Separator/polisher 15 * 1 Jan 2001
     Tallow storage tank 15 * 1 Jan 2001
     Waste heat evaporator 15 * 1 Jan 2001
Dairy product manufacturing
( 11310 to 11330 )
Dairy product manufacturing:      
     Buildings      
             Factory building (66 ⅔ percent of the total cost of the building is regarded as an integral part of plant and machinery):      
             Brick or concrete structure 100   1 Jan 2001
             Wooden structure 20   1 Jan 2001
     Centrifuges (includes separators, decanters, clarifiers and bactofuges) 15 * 1 Jan 2001
     Cheese blockformers 15 * 1 Jan 2001
     Churns (includes continuours buttermaker, butter reworker and ice cream freezer) 15 * 1 Jan 2001
     Continuous cheddaring machine 15 * 1 Jan 2001
     Conveyors 10   1 Jan 2001
     Driers (includes drum, fluidised bed and spray) 20 * 1 Jan 2001
     Evaporators (includes circulation/vacuum chamber - and falling film) 20 * 1 Jan 2001
     Heat exchangers 15 * 1 Jan 2001
     Homogenisers 15 * 1 Jan 2001
     Membrane filtration plant:      
         Filter membranes 1 ½ * 1 Jan 2001
         Membrane holding tanks 15 * 1 Jan 2001
     Pumps (brine and cream) 10   1 Jan 2001
     Tanks (includes storage, mixing, process and balance tanks) 20 * 1 Jan 2001
     Water cooling and aerating plant 8   1 Jan 2001
Fruit and vegetables manufacturing
( 11400 )
Fruit and vegetable canning plant 20   1 Jan 2001
Jam-making plant 20   1 Jan 2001
Grain mill and cereal product manufacturing
( 11610 to 11620 )
Flour-milling plant:      
     Bins (wooden) 33 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     General plant 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Silos, concrete 50 * 1 Jan 2004
     Silos, galvanised 30 * 1 Jan 2004
     Silos, steel 40 * 1 Jan 2004
Linseed oil manufacturing plant 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Pasta manufacturing and related freezing equipment 10   1 Jan 2001
Maltsters' plant:      
     Bins (wooden) 33 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     General plant 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Silos (steel and concrete) 100   1 Jan 2001
Rice milling plant 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Bakery product manufacturing
( 11710 to 11740 )
Baking assets used by large-scale manufacturers of biscuits, bread, cakes, pastries and pies:      
     Ancillary assets (including basket/crate washers, basket stack movers, crate/pan stackers and unstackers, depanners/detinners, foil handling denesters, oil spray unit, pan cleaners, and topping applicators) 15 * 1 Jan 2002
     Automatic pan storage unit 20 * 1 Jan 2002
     Automatic product handling assets (including basket loader and basket stacker) 15 * 1 Jan 2002
     Bread crumb assets (including bagger, debagger, hammer mill, oven, screw conveyor, and sifter) 20 * 1 Jan 2002
     Conveyors:      
         Generally 15 * 1 Jan 2002
         Infloor 12 * 1 Jan 2002
     Cooling and refrigeration assets:      
         Cooling tunnels, tray and vacuum coolers 20 * 1 Jan 2002
         Freezers (including blast freezer, plate freezer) 15 * 1 Jan 2002
         Spiral cooler, spiral freezer 10 * 1 Jan 2002
     Final prover (mechanical type) 15 * 1 Jan 2002
     Final prover (rack type) 8 * 1 Jan 2002
     Make-up assets (including croissant making machines, crumpet making machines, crumbers, cutters, depositors, dividers, dough pumps, dough piece check weigher, extruders, final moulder/panner, first/intermediate prover, gauge rolls, laminators, meat cooker, meat extruder, moulders, muffin making machines, pie making machines, roll making machines, rounder/airflow hander, sheeters and stampers) 12 ½ * 1 Jan 2002
     Mixing assets (including bowl/dough hoists/tippers, meat mincers, meat mincer/blenders, mixers generally and mixer water assets) 15 * 1 Jan 2002
     Ovens:      
         Rack ovens 8 * 1 Jan 2002
         Tray type ovens (including swing tray) 20 * 1 Jan 2002
         Tunnel ovens:      
             Generally 20 * 1 Jan 2002
             Lidding systems 10 * 1 Jan 2002
     Packaging assets (including accumulators, bag closer, bread bagger, box and carton making machines, finished product check weigher, flow wrappers, metal detectors, robotic pick and place and shrink wrappers) 10 * 1 Jan 2002
     Proof and bake systems:      
         Spiral oven 15 * 1 Jan 2002
         Spiral prover 10 * 1 Jan 2002
     Secondary process assets (including cake folders, creamers, depositors, enrobers, icing machines, sandwiching machines and sprinklers) 12 ½ * 1 Jan 2002
     Slicers (including bread band slicer, cake slicer and reciprocating blade slicer) 10 * 1 Jan 2002
     Storage, feeding and ingredient handling assets:      
         Flour silos 25 * 1 Jan 2002
         Blowers, flour sifters and grain soak systems 15 * 1 Jan 2002
         Weighers 10 * 1 Jan 2002
Sugar and confectionery manufacturing
( 11810 to 11820 )
Confectioners' machinery 20   1 Jan 2001
Sugar mills 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Beverage manufacturing
( 12110 to 12140 )
Aerated water plant 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Brewery plant:      
     General plant 20   1 Jan 2001
     Pipes and piping:      
         Condenser 20   1 Jan 2001
         Expansion 40   1 Jan 2001
         Other 40   1 Jan 2001
Distillery plant (brandy etc) 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Wine-making machinery 20   1 Jan 2001
Cigarette and and tobacco manufacturing
( 12200 )
Cigarette paper cutting and folding plant 10   1 Jan 2001
Tobacco kilns 20   1 Jan 2001
Textile, leather, clothing and footwear manufacturing
( 13110 to 13520 )
Boot and shoe-making machinery:      
     Machinery and general plant 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Moulds for plastic heels 3   1 Jan 2001
     Vulcanising moulds 5   1 Jan 2001
Clothing and millinery manufacturing plant:      
     Hat manufacturing plant and machinery 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Sewing machines 10   1 Jan 2001
     General plant 20   1 Jan 2001
Cotton manufacturers' machinery:      
     Conveyors 10   1 Jan 2001
     Engines, gas 20   1 Jan 2001
     Gas producer plant 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Gins 10   1 Jan 2001
Flock manufacturing plant:      
     General plant 20   1 Jan 2001
     Carding machines 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Knitting machines 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Rope and twine manufacturers' plant 20   1 Jan 2001
Tanners' plant:      
     General plant 20   1 Jan 2001
     Modern plant used in 'wet' process 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Weaving machinery (silk and cotton) 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Wool dumping machinery 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Wool scouring machinery 16 ⅔   1 Jan 2001
Woollen manufacturers' machinery 16 ⅔   1 Jan 2001
Log sawmilling and timber dressing
( 14110 to 14130 )
Saw milling equipment:      
     Dry or planner mill plant:      
         Generally (includes multi saw/trimmer, pack docker, planner/molder, resaw or optimiser docker, stress grader and tilt hoist) 10 * 1 Jan 2001
         Stacker 15 * 1 Jan 2001
         Tray sorter 15 * 1 Jan 2001
     Green mill plant:      
         Edger line plant (includes board edger and resaw) 10 * 1 Jan 2001
         Heating plant (includes storage bins/silos) 15 * 1 Jan 2001
         Kiln drying plant:      
             Generally (includes kiln trolleys/carriages, traverser and weights) 10 * 1 Jan 2001
             Timber drying kilns and reconditioners 15 * 1 Jan 2001
         Main saw line plant (includes saws, chipper canter, board separator and cant turner) 10 * 1 Jan 2001
         Sorter and trimming line plant:      
             Generally (includes grade mark reader and multi trimmer) 10 * 1 Jan 2001
             Stackers 15 * 1 Jan 2001
             Vertical bin sorters 15 * 1 Jan 2001
         Log debarking plant (includes decks, carriages, hydraulic grabs and fixed cranes, butt reducer, debarker, kicker sorter and bins/pockets) 10 * 1 Jan 2001
         Log, lumber and waste transfer equipment 15 * 1 Jan 2001
         Log yard equipment:      
             Fixed and mobile cranes 12 * 1 Jan 2001
             Mobile equipment (including log loaders with log grabs) 7 * 1 Jan 2001
             Watering systems 15 * 1 Jan 2001
         Miscellaneous plant:      
             Generally (includes air compressors, extraction systems and pollution and air monitoring equipment) 10 * 1 Jan 2001
             Moisture meters 3 * 1 Jan 2001
             Saw and knife sharpening equipment 10 * 1 Jan 2001
             Walkways 15 * 1 Jan 2001
         Waste processing equipment:      
             Bins - waste, chip and fuel 15 * 1 Jan 2001
             Chippers, shakers/screens and hoggers 10 * 1 Jan 2001
Plywood and veneer manufacturing
( 14930 )
Debarking assets 15 * 1 Jan 2005
Dry clipping assets 25 * 1 Jan 2005
Heating unit assets 20 * 1 Jan 2005
Glue mixing assets 25 * 1 Jan 2005
Lay-up and glue spreading assets (including roller, curtains, and spray coaters, liquid and foam extruders) 25 * 1 Jan 2005
Log conditioning, heating and steaming assets 25 * 1 Jan 2005
Log sizing assets 20 * 1 Jan 2005
Log yard assets (see Log sawmilling and timber dressing (14110 to 14130), Saw milling equipment)      
Materials handling assets (including belt, chain and screw conveyors) 20 * 1 Jan 2005
Packaging assets 20 * 1 Jan 2005
Presses 25 * 1 Jan 2005
Sanding and finishing assets 25 * 1 Jan 2005
Sharpening assets 30 * 1 Jan 2005
Trimming and sawing assets 25 * 1 Jan 2005
Veneer composing, jointing and splicing assets 20 * 1 Jan 2005
Veneer dryers 25 * 1 Jan 2005
Veneer patching and grading assets 20 * 1 Jan 2005
Veneer peeling and slicing assets (including rotary peelers, longitudinal, crosscut, and staylog lathe slicers, log chargers and reelers) 20 * 1 Jan 2005
Veneer reconditioning assets 25 * 1 Jan 2005
Veneer sorting assets 20 * 1 Jan 2005
Wet clipping assets 25 * 1 Jan 2005
Reconstituted wood product manufacturing
( 14940 )
Board coolers 25 * 1 Jan 2005
Board curing assets 20 * 1 Jan 2005
Board storage assets 25 * 1 Jan 2005
Chipping, milling and flaking assets 15 * 1 Jan 2005
Debarking assets 15 * 1 Jan 2005
Driers 15 * 1 Jan 2005
Fibre sifters 15 * 1 Jan 2005
Flake and fibre storage assets 25 * 1 Jan 2005
Glue, resin and wax mixing and blending assets 15 * 1 Jan 2005
Heat plant and boiler assets 25 * 1 Jan 2005
Lamination assets 15 * 1 Jan 2005
Log conditioning, heating and steaming assets 25 * 1 Jan 2005
Log sizing assets 20 * 1 Jan 2005
Log yard assets (see Log sawmilling and timber dressing (14110 to 14130), Saw milling equipment)      
Magnetic separators 25 * 1 Jan 2005
Mat forming and weighing assets (including pendistor) 20 * 1 Jan 2005
Materials handling assets (including belt, chain and screw conveyors) 20 * 1 Jan 2005
Packaging assets 20 * 1 Jan 2005
Presses (including pre-press, hot and cold presses) 25 * 1 Jan 2005
Quality measuring assets (including blow detectors, thickness detectors and weighing bridges) 15 * 1 Jan 2005
Refiner assets 20 * 1 Jan 2005
Sanding and finishing assets 25 * 1 Jan 2005
Trimming and sawing assets 25 * 1 Jan 2005
Ventilation and dust extraction assets 15 * 1 Jan 2005
Woodchip screening and washing assets 15 * 1 Jan 2005
Other wood product manufacturing
( 14910 to 14990 )
Clothes peg manufacturing plant (wood) 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Case-making plant 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Cork manufacturers' plant 10   1 Jan 2001
Frame (picture) manufacturing plant 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Joinery plant 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Moulding machinery (wood) 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Wood working plant 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Pulp, paper and converted paper product manufacturing
( 15100 to 15290 )
Pulp and paper mill assets:      
     Auxiliary assets (including agitators, blowers/fans conveyors, heat exchangers and condensers, pipes and pumps) 15 * 1 Jan 2002
     Box and carton making assets (including box converting assets and corrugators) 10 * 1 Jan 2002
     Chemical preparation assets (including tanks and pipes used for chemical preparation) 10 * 1 Jan 2002
     Electrical and instrumentation assets:      
         Control systems 10 * 1 Jan 2002
         Control valves 15 * 1 Jan 2002
         Local indicators (pressure, level and temperature) 15 * 1 Jan 2002
         Power plant assets (including switchgear, transformers, and turbo generators) - see Table A Electricity supply (26110 to 26400)   * 1 Jan 2002
         Sensors:      
             Specialised 8 * 1 Jan 2002
             Standard 15 * 1 Jan 2002
     Finishing and converting assets (including cut size sheeting/ream wrapping assets, reel wrappers, sheeting machines, tissue converting lines and winders) 15 * 1 Jan 2002
     Paper machine assets:      
         Dry end assets (including calenders, coaters and reelers) 15 * 1 Jan 2002
         Dryers (including MG cylinder and yankee cylinder) 25 * 1 Jan 2002
         Size press 15 * 1 Jan 2002
         Wet end assets (including forming section, head box and press section) 10 * 1 Jan 2002
     Pulp process assets:      
         Major assets (including bleaching towers, digesters, electrostatic precipitators, evaporators, lime kilns, pulp baling lines, recovery boilers, and strippers) 20 * 1 Jan 2002
         Other assets (including cleaners, flotation cells, pulpers and repulpers, refiners, screens and washers/thickeners) 15 * 1 Jan 2002
     Stock preparation assets (including cleaners, flotation cells, pulpers and repulpers, refiners, screens and washers/thickeners) 15 * 1 Jan 2002
     Tanks 20 * 1 Jan 2002
     Wood yard assets (including chip screens, chippers, reclaimers/live bottom scrappers and rotating drum debarkers) 10 * 1 Jan 2002
Paper stationery manufacturing
( 15230 )
Stationers' manufacturing plant 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Printing
( 16110 )
Commercial printing assets:      
     Digital printing assets (including flatbed digital printers, ink based thermal imaging printers, ink jet printers, spray jet digital printers and toner based printers) 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Flexographic printing assets:      
         Ancillary assets:      
             Anilox roll cleaning machines 15  *  1 Jul 2006
             Anilox trolley tugs 10  *  1 Jul 2006
             Ink dispensing systems 10  *  1 Jul 2006
             Sleeves 2  *  1 Jul 2006
             Sleeve mounting machines 10  *  1 Jul 2006
         Printing assets:      
             Die cutters, flexo/folder/gluers (see Pulp, paper and converted paper product manufacturing (15100 to 15290), Box and carton making converting assets)      
             Presses (including mid web, narrow web, very wide web and wide web flexographic presses) 12 1/2  *  1 Jul 2006
     Offset lithography printing presses:      
         Heatset webfed offset presses (incorporating integrated control systems, coaters and other peripheral equipment) 15 * 1 Jan 2006
         Sheetfed presses (incorporating integrated control systems, coaters and other peripheral equipment) 12 ½ * 1 Jan 2006
     Post-press (finishing) trade services assets - see Table A Printing support services (16120)      
     Pre-press trade services assets - see Table A - - Printing support services(16120)      
     Quality control assets:      
         Automatic web inspection systems 6  *  1 Jul 2006
         Gas Chromatograph ('GC') testers 8  *  1 Jul 2006
         Others (including densitometers, plate readers and spectrophotometers) 5  *  1 Jul 2006
     Screen printing assets:      
         Ancillary assets:      
             Dryers (including conventional air dryers, flash curers and UV dryers) 12 ½ * 1 Jan 2006
             Drying racks 20 * 1 Jan 2006
             Emulsion coaters 10 * 1 Jan 2006
             Exposure lights 5 * I Jul 2005
             Screen frames 10 * 1 Jan 2006
             Sign cutting machines 5 * 1 Jan 2006
             Squeegee cutters 10 * 1 Jan 2006
             Vacuum frames 20 * 1 Jan 2006
         Press assets:      
             Heat presses used in sublimation finishing 25 * 1 Jan 2006
             Pen and pad print machines 20 * 1 Jan 2006
             Screen printing presses:      
                 Automatic presses (including in-line multicolour presses) 15 * 1 Jan 2006
                 Cylinder presses 15 * 1 Jan 2006
                 Others (including manual, semi-automatic and three quarter automatic carousel, flatbed and rotary screen printing presses) 20 * 1 Jan 2006
         Screen reclamation assets:      
             Screen cleaning bays 10 * 1 Jan 2006
             Screen washers (automatic) 6 * 1 Jan 2006
             Water blasters 4 * 1 Jan 2006
     Support assets:      
         Afterburners 10 * 1 Jan 2006
         Dust/waste extraction systems 15 * 1 Jan 2006
Newspaper printing or publishing
( 16110 )-
Newspaper wrapping machines 10   1 Jan 2001
Offset printers 10   1 Jan 2001
Printing support services
( 16120 )
Post-press (finishing) trade services assets:      
     Addressing and mailing assets:      
         Combination addressing, folding and gluing mailing units 10 * 1 Jan 2006
         Inkjet addressing printers 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Bagging and wrapping machines (including palletisers) 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Banding and tying machines 12 ½ * 1 Jan 2006
     Benchtop finishing assets used in small printing establishments (including benchtop guillotines, coil, plastic comb and spiral binders, portable banding and tying machines, small roll laminators and tabletop folders) 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Binding assets:      
         Binding lines (including case binding lines and perfect binding lines) 15 * 1 Jan 2006
         Perfect binders standalone 10 * 1 Jan 2006
         Stitchers:      
             Generally (including drum stitchers, saddle stitching lines and side stitchers) 12 ½ * 1 Jan 2006
             Saddle stitchers - standalone (bookletmakers) 7 ½ * 1 Jan 2006
     Casemakers 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Collators 15 * 1 Jan 2006
     Die cutters 15 * 1 Jan 2006
     Drilling units 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Foil stamping machines 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Folders 12 ½ * 1 Jan 2006
     Guillotines and ancillary assets (including joggers, stackers and transomats) 15 * 1 Jan 2006
     Laminators 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Mail inserters 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Perforators 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Sewing machines 15 * 1 Jan 2006
     Three knife trimmers 15 * 1 Jan 2006
Pre-press trade services assets:      
     Conventional flexographic plate making assets (including combination units, dryers, post-exposure units, ultra-violet (UV) light exposure units and washout units) 7 * 1 Jan 2006
     Film and plate processors 6 * 1 Jan 2006
     Film projection camera systems (including backing board and processing assets) 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Platesetters:      
         Computer-to-plate (CtP) platesetters (including thermal and visible-light platesetters) and Direct-to-plate flexographic platesetters (Computer Digital Imagers) 5 * 1 Jan 2006
         Film image platesetters (imagesetters) 7 * 1 Jan 2006
     Plotters 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Proofers:      
         Analogue film or photographic proofers 7 * 1 Jan 2006
         Digital and ink-jet proofers 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Scanners:      
         Drum 10 * 1 Jan 2006
         Flatbed 5 * 1 Jan 2006
Petroleum refining
( 17010 )
Oil refinery assets:      
     Assets used in acid, caustic or clay treating, alkylation, polymerisation or sour water stripping 15 * 1 Jul 2002
     Assets used in sulphur recovery:      
         Generally 15 * 1 Jul 2002
         Sulphur pit 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Assets used in other processes:      
         Air compressor 30 * 1 Jul 2002
         Catalyst regenerator 20 * 1 Jul 2002
         Chemical injection system 5 * 1 Jul 2002
         Coke drum 20 * 1 Jul 2002
         Distillation column 30 * 1 Jul 2002
         Drum:      
             Generally 20 * 1 Jul 2002
             Used in amine treating, bitumen blowing, potassium carbonate treating or vacuum distillation 15 * 1 Jul 2002
         Electric desalter 25 * 1 Jul 2002
         Expansion turbine 25 * 1 Jul 2002
         Fan/Blower 30 * 1 Jul 2002
         Filter/Coalescer:      
             Generally 25 * 1 Jul 2002
             Used in amine treating, continuous coking, delayed coking, potassium carbonate treating, visbreaking or vacuum distillation 20 * 1 Jul 2002
         Flare stack 25 * 1 Jul 2002
         Flare tip 5 * 1 Jul 2002
         Fractionating column 30 * 1 Jul 2002
         Furnace:      
             Generally 25 * 1 Jul 2002
             Used in continuous coking, delayed coking or visbreaking 20 * 1 Jul 2002
         Gas absorber:      
             Generally 25 * 1 Jul 2002
             Used in amine treating or potassium carbonate treating 20 * 1 Jul 2002
         Gas adsorber 25 * 1 Jul 2002
         Heat exchanger:      
             Generally 25 * 1 Jul 2002
             Used in amine treating, bitumen blowing, catalytic de-waxing, continuous coking, delayed coking, hydrodesulphurisation, hydrotreating, potassium carbonate treating, vacuum distillation or visbreaking 20 * 1 Jul 2002
         Jet ejector 20 * 1 Jul 2002
         Liquid extraction column:      
             Generally 25 * 1 Jul 2002
             Used in amine treating 20 * 1 Jul 2002
         Piping 30 * 1 Jul 2002
         Process gas compressor 30 * 1 Jul 2002
         Pump:      
             Generally 25 * 1 Jul 2002
             Used in amine treating, bitumen blowing, catalytic de-waxing, continuous coking, delayed coking, potassium carbonate treating, vacuum distillation or visbreaking 20 * 1 Jul 2002
         Reactor 25 * 1 Jul 2002
         Rotary filter 20 * 1 Jul 2002
         Scrubber 25 * 1 Jul 2002
         Side stream stripper 25 * 1 Jul 2002
         Storage tank:      
             Generally 25 * 1 Jul 2002
             Used in amine treating, merox extraction, merox sweetening or potassium carbonate treating 20 * 1 Jul 2002
         Stripper:      
             Generally 25 * 1 Jul 2002
             Used in amine treating or potassium carbonate treating 20 * 1 Jul 2002
     Bunds (other than formed with earth) 100   1 Jan 2001
     Control systems assets (excluding computers) 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Effluent separators (concrete) 40   1 Jan 2001
     Laboratory equipment 20   1 Jan 2001
Basic chemical and chemical product manufacturing
( 18110 to 18130 )
Chemical manufacturing plant:      
     General plant 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Organic peroxides explosion (cell block) 20   1 Jan 2001
Eucalyptus oil plant:      
     Stills (coolers) 40   1 Jan 2001
     Tanks 40   1 Jan 2001
Fertiliser manufacturing plant 20   1 Jan 2001
Oxygen manufacturing plant 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Salt manufacturing and refining plant 10   1 Jan 2001
Sulphuric acid plant:      
     Acid chambers (irrespective of raw material used) 20   1 Jan 2001
     Plant:      
             Where pyrites used in manufacture of the acid 10   1 Jan 2001
             Where natural sulphur (brimstone) so used 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Pharmaceutical and medicinal product manufacturing
( 18410 )
Laboratory assets:      
     Laboratory analysers (including coagulators, carbon analysers, colour readers, gas chromatographs, high performance liquid chromatographs (HPLCs), and spectrophotometers) 5 * 1 Jan 2004
     Bench top autoclaves 5 * 1 Jan 2004
     Incubators 6 * 1 Jan 2004
     Particle sizers 5 * 1 Jan 2004
Packaging assets:      
     Accumulators 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Batch, barcode, label, and volume readers 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Blister pack packaging machines 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Blow-fill-seal (BFS) machines 12 * 1 Jan 2004
     Bottle and vial inverters and blowers 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Bottle and vial unscramblers 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Bundlers and bundle packing machines 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Cappers and sealers (including tamper proof sealers) 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Cartoners 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Check weighers 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Cream, liquid and powder filling and sealing machines (including bag, bottle, syringe and tube fillers and sealers) 12 * 1 Jan 2004
     Desiccant and cotton wool depositors/inserters 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Dropper and leaflet inserters 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Flaming stations 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Flow wrappers and shrink wrappers 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Ink jet batch label printers 7 * 1 Jan 2004
     Labelling machines 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Palletisers 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Pinhole inspectors 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Robotic pick and place packaging machines 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Sleevers 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Tablet/capsule fillers, feeders and counters 10 * 1 Jan 2004
Production assets:      
     Autoclaves (for terminal sterilisation) 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Drying ovens 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Encapsulators 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Fluid bed dryers 12 * 1 Jan 2004
     Granulators and mixer/granulators 12 * 1 Jan 2004
     Homogenisers 7 * 1 Jan 2004
     Intermediate bulk containers, bins and vessels (including instruments, pipes, pumps and valves) used to hold and transfer formulations during various stages of production 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Metal detectors 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Mixers and blenders (including cream, liquid, powder, and syrup mixers and blenders) 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Sizing mills 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Tablet and capsule coating machines, coating drums and coating pans 12 * 1 Jan 2004
     Tablet dedusters 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Tablet presses 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Vibrating sieves 10 * 1 Jan 2004
Raw material storage and dispensing assets:      
     Demountable strong rooms 20 * 1 Jan 2004
     Dispensing booths and associated air filtration systems 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Laminar flow benches and biohazard cabinets 8 * 1 Jan 2004
     Safes 20 * 1 Jan 2004
     Weighing scales 10 * 1 Jan 2004
Services:      
     Air filtration systems 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Water purification plant 10 * 1 Jan 2004
Cleaning compound and toiletry preparation manufacturing
( 18510 to 18520 )
Boot and shoe polish manufacturing plant 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Other basic chemical product manufacturing
( 18910 to 18990 )
Explosive manufacturing and chemical plant 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Polymer product and rubber product manufacturing
( 19110 to 19200 )
Clothes peg manufacturing plant (plastic) 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Gelatine and glue manufacturing plant 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Ink factory plant 20   1 Jan 2001
Plastic industry:      
     Blow moulders 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Dies 4   1 Jan 2001
     General plant 20   1 Jan 2001
     Hydraulic presses, injection moulding machines, extrusion machines and bottle blowing machines 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Moulds:      
         Glass blowing 2   1 Jan 2001
         High usage 5   1 Jan 2001
         Low usage 10   1 Jan 2001
         Once only 1   1 Jan 2001
Rubber manufacturers' plant:      
     Moulds 5   1 Jan 2001
     Process plant 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Non      metallic mineral product manufacturing
( 20100 to 20900 )
Brick-making plant:      
     Automatic handling equipment 10   1 Jan 2001
     Brick kilns and pre kilns 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Cement brick plant 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Dryers 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     General plant 10   1 Jan 2001
Cement-making plant:      
     General plant (eg rotary mixing machines) 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Silos:      
         Concrete, generally 50 * 1 Jan 2004
         Concrete (used for gypsum or wet slag, or at port facilities) 40 * 1 Jan 2004
         Steel, generally 30 * 1 Jan 2004
         Steel (used for gypsum or wet slag, or at port facilities) 20 * 1 Jan 2004
Concrete pipe manufacturing plant 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Glass bottle manufacturing plant 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Monumental masons' plant 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Plaster manufacturing plant 8   1 Jan 2001
Pottery plant 20   1 Jan 2001
Slate works plant 20   1 Jan 2001
Tile manufacturing plant (cement and concrete):      
     General plant 10   1 Jan 2001
     Pallets (aluminium used in extrusion process) 5   1 Jan 2001
Metal product manufacturing
( 21100 to 21390 )
Designs used in connection with stamping decorative steel and iron work 40   1 Jan 2001
Foundry plant:      
     Converters 10   1 Jan 2001
     Furnaces 10   1 Jan 2001
     Laboratory 20   1 Jan 2001
     Ladles 10   1 Jan 2001
     Loose tools 5   1 Jan 2001
     Machine tools 20   1 Jan 2001
     Machinery and plant 20   1 Jan 2001
     Moulding boxes 10   1 Jan 2001
     Patterns 40   1 Jan 2001
     Plant and tools (excluding furnaces, converter and ladles) 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Rolling mill engines 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Iron and steel industry:      
     Granulators 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Slag pots 3   1 Jan 2001
Metal crushing plant (core fragmentised) 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Metal forming plant:      
     Dies and tooling 4 ½   1 Jan 2001
     Roll forming dies 10   1 Jan 2001
     Strip roll forming machines 20   1 Jan 2001
Nail manufacturing plant 20   1 Jan 2001
Pyrometallurgy process assets. Use any relevant determinations in Mining (06000 to 10900)     1 Jul 2003
Saw-making plant 20   1 Jan 2001
Spring manufacturers' plant:      
     Cooling furnaces 10   1 Jan 2001
     Power presses, rotary cambering, scale testing and scragging machines 20   1 Jan 2001
Stamping blocks (used for designs of decorative steel and iron work) 20   1 Jan 2001
Tank manufacturing plant 20   1 Jan 2001
Tinsmiths' plant 20   1 Jan 2001
Alumina production
( 21310 )
Alumina manufacturing (including bauxite refining and calcined alumina manufacturing):      
     Bauxite crushing and handling assets:      
         Conveyors 30 * 1 Jan 2003
         Crushing assets 30 * 1 Jan 2003
         Screening assets 15 * 1 Jan 2003
         Stockpile reclaimers, stackers and stacker/reclaimers 30 * 1 Jan 2003
         Train loading assets (including conveyors, product bins and towers) 30 * 1 Jan 2003
     Bauxite residue disposal assets:      
         Initial containment areas 20   1 Jan 2001
         Mudlakes 10   1 Jan 2001
     Calcination assets:      
         Calciners and kilns 25 * 1 Jan 2003
         Generally (including alumina cooling assets, hydrate storage tanks and hydrate washing assets) 30 * 1 Jan 2003
     Clarification of liquor stream assets (including counter current washing tanks, flash tanks, lime burning assets, lime handling assets, lime slaking assets, settling tanks and other tanks and vessels) 30 * 1 Jan 2003
     Control systems assets 10 * 1 Jan 2003
     Digestion assets (including desilication tanks, digester vessels, flash tanks, heat exchangers, heaters, mills and trihydrate bauxite treatment assets) 30 * 1 Jan 2003
     Emissions control assets (including baghouse filters and electrostatic precipitators) 20 * 1 Jan 2003
     Filtration assets for hydrate and slurry (including filters used for clarification of liquor and filters used for coarse hydrate) 15 * 1 Jan 2003
     Pipework (including slurry pipes) 30 * 1 Jan 2003
     Precipitation assets (including classification assets, cooling towers, crystallisation assets, heat exchangers, tanks and vessels) 30 * 1 Jan 2003
     Pumps 20 * 1 Jan 2003
     Steam raising and electrical infrastructure assets (including switchgear and transformers) 30 * 1 Jan 2003
Aluminium smelting
( 21320 )
Anode baking assets (including crucibles and furnaces) 20 * 1 Jan 2003
Anode (green) pasting assets:      
     Crushing assets 30 * 1 Jan 2003
     Mixing and forming assets 15 * 1 Jan 2003
     Screening assets 15 * 1 Jan 2003
Anode rodding assets (including aluminium spray station assets, furnaces and metal casting assets) 20 * 1 Jan 2003
Compressors 20 * 1 Jan 2003
Control systems assets 10 * 1 Jan 2003
Cranes and gantries (including cell tending machines) 20 * 1 Jan 2003
Emissions control assets (including baghouse filters and electrostatic precipitators) 20 * 1 Jan 2003
Materials handling assets:      
     Anode transport vehicles and hot metal carriers 10 * 1 Jan 2003
     Generally (including conveyors, silos and stockpile reclaiming assets) 30 * 1 Jan 2003
Metal casting assets (including casting machines, casting wheels, crucibles, foam filters, furnaces, in-line metal treatment assets, stacking machines and weighing machines) 20 * 1 Jan 2003
Pot line/reduction line assets (excluding cell tending machines, cranes and gantries) 25 * 1 Jan 2003
Pumps 20 * 1 Jan 2003
Steam raising and electrical infrastructure assets:      
     Generally (including switchgear and transformers) 30 * 1 Jan 2003
     Rectiformers 20 * 1 Jan 2003
Non      ferrous metal casting
( 21410 )
Metal casting assets (non-ferrous eg aluminium, brass and magnesium):      
     Cooling assets (including tables, conveyors, towers) 15 * 1 Jan 2004
     Die casting machines (including high pressure, low pressure and gravity type machines) 15 * 1 Jan 2004
     Die tools (moulds used for casting) 4 * 1 Jan 2004
     Heating assets:      
         Degassing assets 5 * 1 Jan 2004
         Furnaces (including dosing, holding and melting) 15 * 1 Jan 2004
         Heat treatment baskets 5 * 1 Jan 2004
         Heat treatment ovens 20 * 1 Jan 2004
         Ingot pre-heaters 20 * 1 Jan 2004
         Quenching tanks 20 * 1 Jan 2004
     Machining/finishing assets:      
         Blast machines (including shot, sand, bead) 20 * 1 Jan 2004
         CNC lathes 10 * 1 Jan 2004
         CNC machining centres 10 * 1 Jan 2004
         CNC milling machines 10 * 1 Jan 2004
         Drilling machines 15 * 1 Jan 2004
         Linishing belt machines 10 * 1 Jan 2004
         Trim presses (hydraulic type and crank type) 15 * 1 Jan 2004
         Trim tools used in trim press machines 4 * 1 Jan 2004
         Vibrating machines (including rumbling and knock out machines 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Materials handling conveyors 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Molten metal transfer ladles 3 * 1 Jan 2004
     Paint line conveyors 15 * 1 Jan 2004
     Robots 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Sand casting assets:      
         Core boxes 4 * 1 Jan 2004
         Core making machines (core blowers) 15 * 1 Jan 2004
         Gas generators for sand curing 15 * 1 Jan 2004
     Testing assets:      
         Co-ordinate measurement machines 10 * 1 Jan 2004
         Leak and pressure testing machines 4 * 1 Jan 2004
         Spectrometers 10 * 1 Jan 2004
         X-ray machines 15 * 1 Jan 2004
Motor vehicle and motor vehicle part manufacturing
( 23110 to 23190 )
For metal casting assets see determinations for Non-ferrous metal casting (21420)      
Motor vehicle manufacturing plant:      
     Basic machinery 10   1 Jan 2001
     Tooling (ie jigs, dies, press tools and specialty attachments such as working heads and work-holding tools) 3   1 Jan 2001
Piston ring manufacturing plant:      
     Engineering works plant 20   1 Jan 2001
     Motors 20   1 Jan 2001
     Overhead gear, equipment, belting, etc 20   1 Jan 2001
     Precision machines 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Other transport equipment manufacturing
( 23910 to 23990 )
Motor cycle building plant 10   1 Jan 2001
Photographic, optical and ophthalmic equipment manufacturing
( 24110 )
Optical lens grinding and contact lens manufacturing:      
     CNC milling machines 7 * 1 Jul 2004
     Combined surface generators and grinders and finers 10 * 1 Jul 2004
     Deblocking and lens cleaning machines (including ultrasonic washers) 9 * 1 Jul 2004
     Finers 10 * 1 Jul 2004
     Finishing blockers 8 * 1 Jul 2004
     Frame tracers 5 * 1 Jul 2004
     Lap tools 10 * 1 Jul 2004
     Layout blockers 8 * 1 Jul 2004
     Lens coating machines 10 * 1 Jul 2004
     Lens curing and drying ovens 10 * 1 Jul 2004
     Lens edgers 7 * 1 Jul 2004
     Lens tinting machines 8 * 1 Jul 2004
     Lensmeters:      
         Manual 10 * 1 Jul 2004
         Automated 5 * 1 Jul 2004
     Polishers 10 * 1 Jul 2004
     Protective lacquering or surface saver taping machines 9 * 1 Jul 2004
     Surface generators and grinders 10 * 1 Jul 2004
     Surface lathes 8 * 1 Jul 2004
Other professional and scientific equipment manufacturing n.e.c . ( 24190 )
Watchmakers' plant 10   1 Jan 2001
Furniture and other manufacturing
( 25110 to 25990 )
Broom and brush manufacturing plant 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Furniture-making plant 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Jewellers' plant 10   1 Jan 2001
Umbrella manufacturers' plant:      
     Cutting boards 10   1 Jan 2001
     Lathes 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Motors 20   1 Jan 2001
ASSET LIFE ( YEARS ) REVIEWED DATE OF APPLICATION
ELECTRICITY, GAS, WATER AND WASTE SERVICES
( 26110 to 29220 )
Electricity supply
( 26110 to 26400 )
Electricity distribution:      
     Control, monitoring, communications and protection systems 10 * 1 Jan 2002
     Customer meters (incorporating load and time switches if fitted) 25 * 1 Jan 2002
     Customer service mains or cable, above ground 40 * 1 Jan 2002
     Customer service mains or cable, underground 50 * 1 Jan 2002
     Distribution lines:      
         Above ground (incorporating conductors; cross arms, insulators and fittings; poles concrete, wood, steel or stobie; and transformers pole or ground pad mounted) 45 * 1 Jan 2002
         Combination of above ground and underground 47 1/2 * 1 Jan 2002
         Underground (incorporating cables, fittings and ground pad mounted transformers) 50 * 1 Jan 2002
     Distribution substations/transformers, pole or ground pad mounted 40 * 1 Jan 2002
     Distribution zone substations (excluding control, monitoring, communications and protection systems) 40 * 1 Jan 2002
     Nightwatchman's lights 15 * 1 Jan 2002
     Street lights 15 * 1 Jan 2002
Electricity generation:      
     Ash and dust handling and disposal:      
         Ash dams 20 * 1 Jan 2002
         Ash slurry system 15 * 1 Jan 2002
         Conveyors 30 * 1 Jan 2002
         Crushers 15 * 1 Jan 2002
         On-site storage silos, concrete or steel 30 * 1 Jan 2002
     Fuel supply and handling:      
         On-site gaseous fuel supply system (incorporating downstream delivery pipelines) 30 * 1 Jan 2002
         On-site liquid fuel supply system (incorporating ownstream delivery pipelines) 30 * 1 Jan 2002
         Solid fuels:      
             Coal handling assets (including conveyors, slot bunker, transfer towers, and weighers) 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             Day bunkers and silos, concrete or steel (incorporating top side conveyor system) 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             On-site coal storage assets (including stacking and reclaiming assets) 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             On-site storage silos, concrete or steel 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             Quality control assets (including coal sampling assets and secondary crushers) 30 * 1 Jan 2002
     Power generators:      
         Co-generation:      
             Condensing and feed heating assets 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             Control and monitoring system 15 * 1 Jan 2002
             Emergency power supply assets (including batteries and uninterruptible power supply assets) 15 * 1 Jan 2002
             Gas turbine generators 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             Generator transformer and unit transformer in sub-tropical area 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             Generator transformer and unit transformer in tropical area 25 * 1 Jan 2002
             Heat recovery steam generator 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             Miscellaneous assets 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             On-site switchyard with conventional outdoor switchgear 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             On-site switchyard with gas insulated switchgear 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             Reciprocating engine, diesel fired 20 * 1 Jan 2002
             Reciprocating engine, gas spark ignition 20 * 1 Jan 2002
             Station and auxiliary electrical systems within the power station 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             Steam turbine generator 30 * 1 Jan 2002
         Combined cycle:      
             Condensing and feed heating assets 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             Control and monitoring system 15 * 1 Jan 2002
             Emergency power supply assets (including batteries and uninterruptible power supply assets) 15 * 1 Jan 2002
             Gas turbine generators 30    
             Generator transformer and unit transformer in sub-tropical area 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             Generator transformer and unit transformer in tropical area 25 * 1 Jan 2002
             Heat recovery steam generator 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             Miscellaneous assets 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             On-site switchyard with conventional outdoor switchgear 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             On-site switchyard with gas insulated switchgear 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             Station and auxiliary electrical systems within the power station 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             Steam turbine generator 30 * 1 Jan 2002
         Diesel or gas engine:      
             Control and monitoring system 15 * 1 Jan 2002
             Diesel reciprocating engine 20 * 1 Jan 2002
             Emergency power supply assets (including batteries and uninterruptible power supply assets) 15 * 1 Jan 2002
             Gas spark ignition reciprocating engine 20 * 1 Jan 2002
             Generator transformer and unit transformer in sub-tropical area 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             Generator transformer and unit transformer in tropical area 25 * 1 Jan 2002
             Miscellaneous assets 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             On-site switchyard with conventional outdoor switchgear 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             On-site switchyard with gas insulated switchgear 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             Station and auxiliary electrical systems within the power station 30 * 1 Jan 2002
         Gas turbine:      
             Control and monitoring system 15 * 1 Jan 2002
             Emergency power supply assets (including batteries and uninterruptible power supply assets) 15 * 1 Jan 2002
             Gas turbine generators 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             Generator transformer and unit transformer in sub-tropical area 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             Generator transformer and unit transformer in tropical area 25 * 1 Jan 2002
             Miscellaneous assets 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             On-site switchyard with conventional outdoor switchgear 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             On-site switchyard with gas insulated switchgear 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             Station and auxiliary electrical systems within the power station 30 * 1 Jan 2002
         Hydro-electric:      
             Control and monitoring system 15 * 1 Jan 2002
             Emergency power supply assets (including batteries and uninterruptible power supply assets) 15 * 1 Jan 2002
             Generator transformer and unit transformer in sub-tropical area 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             Generator transformer and unit transformer in tropical area 25 * 1 Jan 2002
             Hydro turbines and generators 40 * 1 Jan 2002
             Miscellaneous assets 40 * 1 Jan 2002
             On-site switchyard with conventional outdoor switchgear 40 * 1 Jan 2002
             On-site switchyard with gas insulated switchgear 35 * 1 Jan 2002
             Station and auxiliary electrical systems within the power station 40 * 1 Jan 2002
         Thermal:      
             Condensing and feed heating assets 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             Control and monitoring system 15 * 1 Jan 2002
             Emergency power supply assets (including batteries and uninterruptible power supply assets) 15 * 1 Jan 2002
             Generator transformer and unit transformer in sub-tropical area 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             Generator transformer and unit transformer in tropical area 25 * 1 Jan 2002
             Miscellaneous assets 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             On-site switchyard with conventional outdoor switchgear 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             On-site switchyard with gas insulated switchgear 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             Primary dust collection system (incorporating electrostatic precipitators or baghouse filters) 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             Solid fuel preparation assets (including fuel feeders and milling assets) 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             Station and auxiliary electrical systems within the power station 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             Steam generator 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             Steam turbine generator 30 * 1 Jan 2002
         Wind:      
             Generator transformer and unit transformer in sub-tropical area 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             Generator transformer and unit transformer in tropical area 25 * 1 Jan 2002
             Wind turbine 20 * 1 Jan 2002
     Power station civil and structural works:      
         Chimney stack:      
             Concrete surround 30 * 1 Jan 2002
             Steel flues 20 * 1 Jan 2002
         Cooling tower, concrete or timber 30 * 1 Jan 2002
         Cooling water system (excluding cooling towers and condensing assets) 30 * 1 Jan 2002
         Power station buildings, to the extent that they form an integral part of plant 30 * 1 Jan 2002
     Workshop machinery and tools 20 * 1 Jan 2002
Electricity transmission:      
     Control, monitoring, communications and protection systems 12 1/2 * 1 Jan 2002
     Power transformers 40 * 1 Jan 2002
     Transmission lines (incorporating conductors, insulators and towers) 47 1/2 * 1 Jan 2002
     Transmission substations (excluding power transformers and control, monitoring, communications and protection systems) 40 * 1 Jan 2002
Gas supply
( 27000 )
Gas distribution:      
     Control systems (excluding computers) 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Gas meter 15 * 1 Jul 2002
     Low pressure (LP) gas storage holder 40 * # 1 Jul 2002
     Pigging device 5 * 1 Jul 2002
     Pipeline (including high, medium or low pressure trunk, primary or secondary mains or services):      
         Generally 50 * # 1 Jul 2002
         PVC pipeline 30 * # 1 Jul 2002
     Regulators (including gate stations, subgate stations, block valve stations, pressure regulating stations and district regulating stations) 40 * # 1 Jul 2002
Gas transmission:      
     Compressor gas turbine (GT) driver 20 * 1 Jul 2002
     Compressor station assets 30 * # 1 Jul 2002
     Control systems (excluding computers) 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Gas meter 15 * 1 Jul 2002
     Gas pipeline LNG station assets 30 * # 1 Jul 2002
     Pigging device 5 * 1 Jul 2002
     Pipeline - transmission, spur or lateral 50 * # 1 Jul 2002
     Regulators (including gate stations, subgate stations, block valve stations, pressure regulating stations and district regulating stations) 40 * # 1 Jul 2002
     Underground gas storage asset 40 * # 1 Jul 2002
Irrigation water providers
( 28110 )
Channel regulators 80 * 1 Jan 2005
Cranes (including gantries) 40 * 1 Jan 2005
Dams and weirs (incorporating gates and actuators) consisting of a barrier to obstruct the flow of water constructed from any or all of the following: concrete, earth and rockfill) 100 * 1 Jan 2005
Drain inlet 50 * 1 Jan 2005
Drainage channels (measured from the point of intersection with another drainage channel to the following intersection) 100 * 1 Jan 2005
Escapes 50 * 1 Jan 2005
Flow meters 20 * 1 Jan 2005
Irrigation channels (incorporating siphons and subways) measured from offtake or regulator to regulator:      
     Concrete 50 * 1 Jan 2005
     Earth 80 * 1 Jan 2005
Measurement flumes 50 * 1 Jan 2005
Metered outlets:      
     Electronic 40 * 1 Jan 2005
     Mechanical 50 * 1 Jan 2005
     Piped 40 * 1 Jan 2005
Offtakes 80 * 1 Jan 2005
Pipes: measured from valve to valve, that are of the same age and same material (not being in the nature of a repair) 80 * 1 Jan 2005
Pump inlets 50 * 1 Jan 2005
Pump sets (incorporating switchboards, starters, motors and pumps) 40 * 1 Jan 2005
Reservoirs and tanks 80 * 1 Jan 2005
Valves 40 * 1 Jan 2005
Water supply
( 28110 )
Aerators and blowers 20 * 1 Jan 2005
Cathodic protection systems 20 * 1 Jan 2005
Chemical dosing pumps 25 * 1 Jan 2005
Pump sets (incorporating switch boards, starters, motors and pumps) 25 * 1 Jan 2005
Pressure reducing valves 25 * 1 Jan 2005
Valves (excluding pressure reducing valves) 30 * 1 Jan 2005
Raw water storage and supply assets:      
     Bores 30 * 1 Jan 2005
     Dams and weirs 100 * 1 Jan 2005
     Dam or weir intake structures 100 * 1 Jan 2005
Water treatment assets:      
     Balance tanks 80 * 1 Jan 2005
     Bore water treatment assets:      
         Aerators and blowers 20 * 1 Jan 2005
         Lime silos 50 * 1 Jan 2005
         Batching tanks 80 * 1 Jan 2005
         Lime pump sets (incorporating switch boards, starters, motors and pumps) 25 * 1 Jan 2005
         Reactors 25 * 1 Jan 2005
         Filtration tanks 80 * 1 Jan 2005
         Backwash pumps 25 * 1 Jan 2005
         Clear water tanks 80 * 1 Jan 2005
         Sludge thickeners 50 * 1 Jan 2005
         Drying beds 50 * 1 Jan 2005
     Chemical blowers 15 * 1 Jan 2005
     Chemical dosing systems 15 * 1 Jan 2005
     Chemical feeders and hoppers 25 * 1 Jan 2005
     Chemical mixers and blenders 25 * 1 Jan 2005
     Chemical storage tanks 30 * 1 Jan 2005
     Clarifiers (incorporating scrapers) 80 * 1 Jan 2005
     Clear water tanks 80 * 1 Jan 2005
     Dissolved air flotation systems 25 * 1 Jan 2005
     Filtration tanks (incorporating scrapers) 80 * 1 Jan 2005
     Flocculation tanks (incorporating scrapers) 80 * 1 Jan 2005
     Inline mixers 15 * 1 Jan 2005
     Pen-stops 25 * 1 Jan 2005
     Raw water inlet screening systems 25 * 1 Jan 2005
     Sludge treatment lagoons 50 * 1 Jan 2005
     Wash water holding tanks 80 * 1 Jan 2005
Water mains: Being lengths of trunk, distribution and reticulation mains within a section, measured from valve to valve that are of the same age and same material (not being in the nature of a repair) 80 * 1 Jan 2005
Water supply pumping station detention tanks 80 * 1 Jan 2005
Reservoirs, elevated tanks and standpipes: whether made from steel or concrete 80 * 1 Jan 2005
Service connections:      
     Water meters 20 * 1 Jan 2005
Water supply control systems assets:      
     Air scour flow meters, level sensors, transmitters and meters 10 * 1 Jan 2005
     Chlorine analysers, mini labs, PH meters, turbidity analysers and meters 7 * 1 Jan 2005
     Flow meters 20 * 1 Jan 2005
     Pressure sensors, transmitters and meters 10 * 1 Jan 2005
     Telemetry (including modems and remote transfer units) 10 * 1 Jan 2005
     Variable speed drives 15 * 1 Jan 2005
Sewerage and drainage services
( 28120 )
Chemical dosing pumps 25 * 1 Jan 2005
Pump sets (incorporating switch boards, starters, motors and pumps) 25 * 1 Jan 2005
Sewage service connection assets:      
     Low pressure pumps 25 * 1 Jan 2005
     Vacuum pumps 25 * 1 Jan 2005
Sewer mains: Being lengths of collection sewers measured from manhole to manhole (including branch, main, pressure, reticulation, sub-main and trunk sewers) (not being in the nature of a repair) 80 * 1 Jan 2005
Pressure reducing valves 25 * 1 Jan 2005
Valves (excluding pressure reducing valves) 30 * 1 Jan 2005
Sewage pump station assets:      
     Detention tanks 80 * 1 Jan 2005
     Overflow screens 25 * 1 Jan 2005
Sewage treatment assets:      
     Air filtration systems 20 * 1 Jan 2005
     Air scrubbers 10 * 1 Jan 2005
     Chemical blowers 15 * 1 Jan 2005
     Chemical feeders and hoppers 25 * 1 Jan 2005
     Chemical mixers and blenders 25 * 1 Jan 2005
     Chemical storage tanks 30 * 1 Jan 2005
     Pen-stops 25 * 1 Jan 2005
     Water storage tanks 80 * 1 Jan 2005
     Screenings removal assets 25 * 1 Jan 2005
     Grit removal assets 25 * 1 Jan 2005
     Primary treatment assets:      
         Primary clarifiers (incorporating scrapers) 80 * 1 Jan 2005
         Primary sedimentation lagoons 50 * 1 Jan 2005
         Primary sedimentation tanks (incorporating scrapers and weirs) 80 * 1 Jan 2005
         Scum collection and transfer systems 25 * 1 Jan 2005
     Secondary treatment assets:      
         Biological nutrient removal (BNR) assets:      
             Aerators and blowers 20 * 1 Jan 2005
             BNR tanks (incorporating mixed liquor stream, anoxic, anaerobic and swing zones and diffusers) 80 * 1 Jan 2005
             Mixers 25 * 1 Jan 2005
         Secondary clarifiers (incorporating scrapers) 80 * 1 Jan 2005
         Secondary treatment lagoons 50 * 1 Jan 2005
         Secondary treatment tanks (incorporating scrapers and weirs) 80 * 1 Jan 2005
         Sequenced batch reactors 80 * 1 Jan 2005
         Sludge aerators and blowers 80 * 1 Jan 2005
     Tertiary treatment assets:      
         Backwash air blowers 20 * 1 Jan 2005
         Chlorine contact tanks 80 * 1 Jan 2005
         Filtration tanks 80 * 1 Jan 2005
         Reverse osmosis assets:      
             Fine screening systems 15 * 1 Jan 2005
             Micro filtration units 15 * 1 Jan 2005
             Reverse osmosis membrane filtration units 10 * 1 Jan 2005
         UV disinfectors 25 * 1 Jan 2005
     Sludge processing assets:      
         Anaerobic digesters 80 * 1 Jan 2005
         Anaerobic digester gas handling and blowing systems 25 * 1 Jan 2005
         Anaerobic digester heating systems 25 * 1 Jan 2005
         Bio-filters 80 * 1 Jan 2005
         Dissolved air flotation systems 25 * 1 Jan 2005
         Lime disinfection dosing units 25 * 1 Jan 2005
         Sludge dewatering assets:      
             Belt presses 15 * 1 Jan 2005
             Centrifuges 20 * 1 Jan 2005
             Screw conveyors 25 * 1 Jan 2005
             Screw presses 20 * 1 Jan 2005
             Sludge driers 20 * 1 Jan 2005
         Sludge heating units 20 * 1 Jan 2005
         Sludge thickening tanks (incorporating scrapers) 80 * 1 Jan 2005
Methane gas and cogeneration assets (see Electricity supply, 26100 and Gas supply, 27100)      
Dams:      
     Lined earth dams 100 * 1 Jan 2005
     Dam covers 20 * 1 Jan 2005
Effluent outfalls:      
     Shoreline ocean 100 * 1 Jan 2005
     Extended ocean 100 * 1 Jan 2005
     River or estuary 100 * 1 Jan 2005
Sewerage control systems assets:      
     Chlorine residual analysers and PH meters 7 * 1 Jan 2005
     Dissolved oxygen probes, level sensors, transmitters and meters 10 * 1 Jan 2005
     Flow meters 20 * 1 Jan 2005
     Telemetry (including modems and remote transfer - units) 10 * 1 Jan 2005
     Variable speed drives 15 * 1 Jan 2005
Waste disposal services
( 29110 )
Garbage compactor trucks (including the compactor) 10 * 1 Jan 2005
ASSET LIFE ( YEARS ) REVIEWED DATE OF APPLICATION
CONSTRUCTION
( 30110 to 32909 )
Backhoe loaders 9 * 1 Jul 2002
Bending machines (bar, angle or rod) 10   1 Jan 2001
Brick elevators (portable) 5   1 Jan 2001
Chain blocks, rod shears, jacks, etc 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Compactors 12 * 1 Jul 2002
Compressors (mobile) 12 * 1 Jul 2002
Concreting plant:      
     Batching plant:      
         Portable and demountable 6 ⅔   1 Jan 2001
         Static 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Buggies or dumpers (motorised) 5   1 Jan 2001
     Hoppers, skips and hoist buckets 10   1 Jan 2001
     Immersion vibrators 4   1 Jan 2001
     Mobile concrete pumping units 6 ⅔   1 Jan 2001
     Monorails 5   1 Jan 2001
     Steel formwork, beams and props 10   1 Jan 2001
     Trowelling machines 4   1 Jan 2001
     Vibrating screeders 4   1 Jan 2001
Cranes (mobile):      
     Light and medium 15 * 1 Jul 2002
     Heavy (over 15.24 tonnes lift) 20 * 1 Jul 2002
     Tower and hoists 10   1 Jan 2001
Dozers/Front end loaders 9 * 1 Jul 2002
Forklifts 11 * 1 Jul 2002
Grinding and milling machines 3   1 Jan 2001
Hydraulic excavators 10 * 1 Jul 2002
Levels, dumpy, etc 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Lift slab equipment 5   1 Jan 2001
Mini excavators 8 * 1 Jul 2002
Motor graders 10 * 1 Jul 2002
Pavers 12   1 Jul 2002
Profilers 10 * 1 Jul 2002
Pumps 10   1 Jan 2001
Road rollers 15 * 1 Jul 2002
Saw benches (portable) 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Scrapers 8 * 1 Jul 2002
Skid steer loaders 7 * 1 Jul 2002
Stabiliser recyclers 12 * 1 Jul 2002
Telescopic handlers 10 * 1 Jul 2002
Tool carriers 10 * 1 Jul 2002
Track loaders 9   1 Jul 2002
Traffic management assets (use the relevant lives given under Rental and hiring services (66110 to 66310), whether or not the assets are in fact hired or leased)      
Welding units (portable):      
     Light type 6 ⅔   1 Jan 2001
     Medium and other types 10   1 Jan 2001
Wheel loaders 8 * 1 Jul 2002
Winches 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
ASSET LIFE ( YEARS ) REVIEWED DATE OF APPLICATION
WHOLESALE TRADE
( 33110 to 38000 )
Wool wholesaling
(33110)
Wool presses 20  *  1 Jul 2006
Mineral, metal and chemical wholesaling
( 33210 to 33230 )
Petroleum products wholesaling assets:      
     Drums 4   1 Jan 2001
     Tanks (including crude, intermediate and finished - product tanks) 20   1 Jan 2001
ASSET LIFE ( YEARS ) REVIEWED DATE OF APPLICATION
RETAIL TRADE
( 39110 to 43209 )
Counters, freestanding (including check-out and service counters) 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Electronic article surveillance (EAS) system assets (including barcodes or tag deactivators and detachers, door pedestals, electronic tag release assets, receivers and transmitters) 5 * 1 Jul 2005
Floor coverings (removable without damage):      
     Carpet 8 * 1 Jul 2005
     Floating timber 10 * 1 Jul 2005
     Linoleum 10 * 1 Jul 2005
     Vinyl 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Furniture, freestanding (including chairs, cupboards, racks, showcases and tables) 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Hot food display assets (including bain marie) 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Overhead track scales (including meat rail scales) 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Roller shutter electric motors 20 * 1 Jul 2005
Shelving 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Trolleys, customer shopping type 7 * 1 Jul 2005
Trolleys, stock type 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Visual display assets (including body forms, head displayers, mannequins and seasonal decorations) 7 * 1 Jul 2005
Fuel retailing
( 4000 )
See Automative repair and maintenance (94110 to 94199)      
Food retailing
( 41100 to 41290 )
Butchers' plant 20   1 Jan 2001
Retail bread, biscuit, cake and pastry baking assets:      
     Bread slicers 7 * 1 Jan 2002
     Bun divider/rounder 8 * 1 Jan 2002
     Fixed bowl spiral mixers 7 * 1 Jan 2002
     Hydraulic dough divider 7 * 1 Jan 2002
     Moulders 8 * 1 Jan 2002
     Ovens (convection) 8 * 1 Jan 2002
     Ovens (multi-decked, rotating rack or static rack, rotating deck) 10 * 1 Jan 2002
     Planetary mixers 7 * 1 Jan 2002
     Provers/prover retarders 6 * 1 Jan 2002
     Semi-automated baguette, bread and bread roll making assets 12 * 1 Jan 2002
     Semi-automated doughnut making assets 8 * 1 Jan 2002
ASSET LIFE ( YEARS ) REVIEWED DATE OF APPLICATION
ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD SERVICES
( 44000 to 45302 )
Accommodation
( 44000 )
Accommodation providers using assets not listed here may rely on determinations shown for Residential Property Operators (67110).      
Accommodation providers who operate a pub, tavern, bar, café, restaurant or club within their premises should use the effective life determinations shown for Cafes restaurants, takeawy food services, pubs, taverns, bars and clubs( hospitality) (45110 to 45302) for assets used in that business.      
Audio visual entertainment assets including those used in conference and function rooms (including amplifier, audio speaker, digital disc player, microphone, television, turntable, video projection - equipment) 5 * 1 Jul 2005
Carpets 7 * 1 Jul 2005
Door control and motor drive system for automatic sliding doors and revolving doors (incorporating chains, controls, motors and sensors), excluding doors 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Furniture, freestanding:      
     Generally (including guestrooms) 7 * 1 Jul 2005
     Outdoor 5 * 1 Jul 2005
Garage doors, electric (excluding doors):      
     Controls and motors 5 * 1 Jul 2005
Gates, electric (excluding gates):      
     Controls and motors 5 * 1 Jul 2005
Guestroom assets:      
     Bathroom assets:      
         Accessories, freestanding (including sanitary assets, shower caddies, soap holders and toilet brushes) 1 * 1 Jul 2005
         Hair dryers 3 * 1 Jul 2005
         Heated towel rails, electric 5 * 1 Jul 2005
         Scales 5 * 1 Jul 2005
         Spa bath pumps 7 * 1 Jul 2005
         Towels 1 * 1 Jul 2005
     Bedding (including mattress protectors, pillows and sheets) 2 * 1 Jul 2005
     Bed mattresses 7 * 1 Jul 2005
     Beds:      
         Generally (including ensembles) 7 * 1 Jul 2005
         Foldout and rollaway beds (excluding sofas) 3 * 1 Jul 2005
     Bed spreads, blankets and quilts 5 * 1 Jul 2005
     Clocks and clock radios 5 * 1 Jul 2005
     Kitchen assets:      
         Bar refrigerators 10 * 1 Jul 2005
         Cooking utensils (including electric jugs, kettles, pans, pots and toasters), excluding portable cook tops and ovens. 2 * 1 Jul 2005
         Crockery and cutlery 4 * 1 Jul 2005
         Glassware 2 * 1 Jul 2005
         Microwave ovens 5 * 1 Jul 2005
     Laundry assets in guestrooms:      
         Clothes dryers 7 * 1 Jul 2005
         Irons and ironing boards 3 * 1 Jul 2005
         Washing machines 7 * 1 Jul 2005
     Window blinds and curtains 6 * 1 Jul 2005
Hot water systems (excluding commercial boilers and piping) 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Housekeeping assets (including bins, buckets, floor signs and toilet brushes) 1 * 1 Jul 2005
Laundry assets used by hotel/motel operators:      
     Dryers 10 * 1 Jul 2005
     Linen bins 15 * 1 Jul 2005
     Pressers 15 * 1 Jul 2005
     Roller irons 20 * 1 Jul 2005
     Washing machines 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Public address and paging system assets (including amplifiers, audio speakers and microphones) 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Sauna heating assets 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Swimming pools and spas:      
     Chlorinators 8 * 1 Jul 2005
     Filtration assets (including pumps) 8 * 1 Jul 2005
     Heaters 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Trolleys 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Vacuum cleaners 3 * 1 Jul 2005
Water pumps used to deliver water to residences above ground level 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Cafes, restaurants, takeaway food services, pubs, taverns bars and clubs ( hospitality )
( 45110 to 45302 )
Audio visual entertainment assets (including amplifiers, audio speakers, digital disc players, microphones, televisions, turntables and video projection equipment) 5 * 1 Jul 2005
Bars, freestanding (including drink service counters and wet bars) 15 * 1 Jul 2005
Beer dispensing system assets (including, tanks, taps tubes and valves) 15 * 1 Jul 2005
Coffee making machines (including espresso and drip filter type machines) 5 * 1 Jul 2005
Counters for customer service, freestanding 15 * 1 Jul 2005
Dance floor assets, freestanding (including wooden surface, fog and smoke machines, strobe lights and disco balls) 5 * 1 Jul 2005
Dishwasher machines 8 * 1 Jul 2005
Drink blenders 3 * 1 Jul 2005
Drink dispensing machines (including hot water urns, post mix dispensers, refrigerated and frozen drink dispensers and dairy dispensers) excluding beer dispensing systems 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Electronic spirits dispensers 5 * 1 Jul 2005
Floor coverings, removable without damage:      
     Carpet 5 * 1 Jul 2005
     Rubber safety mats 5 * 1 Jul 2005
Food preparation and service assets:      
     Bench top appliances small portable type (including blenders, food processors, grills, rice cookers and toasters) 3 * 1 Jul 2005
     Cooking appliances, large commercial type (including cook tops, deep fryers, grills, kebab machines, ovens and salamanders) 10 * 1 Jul 2005
     Cookware, handheld (including frypans, pans, pots, trays and woks) 2 * 1 Jul 2005
     Crockery, cutlery and glassware 1 * 1 Jul 2005
     Hot food display assets (including bain marie) 10 * 1 Jul 2005
     Microwave ovens 5 * 1 Jul 2005
     Preparation benches, freestanding 20 * 1 Jul 2005
     Wok burners, large commercial type 8 * 1 Jul 2005
Furniture, freestanding, for customer use:      
     In drinking areas of pubs, bars, clubs 5 * 1 Jul 2005
     In dining areas 8 * 1 Jul 2005
Furniture, not freestanding:      
     Chairs and tables fixed to ground or building 20 * 1 Jul 2005
Glassware 1 * 1 Jul 2005
Glass washer machines 5 * 1 Jul 2005
Kitchen exhaust fans 5 * 1 Jul 2005
Menu boards 5 * 1 Jul 2005
ASSET LIFE ( YEARS ) REVIEWED DATE OF APPLICATION
TRANSPORT AND STORAGE
( 46100 to 53090 )
Road transport
( 46100 to 46239 )
Containers, transportable (used to transport goods by road, rail and sea) 10 * 1 Jan 2001
Taxis 4   1 Jan 2001
Rail transport
( 47100 to 47200 )
Containers, transportable (used to transport goods by road, rail and sea) 10 * 1 Jan 2001
Infrastructure assets:      
     Electrification assets:      
         Overhead distribution lines (incorporating conductors, contact catenary, cross arms, insulators and fittings, and poles) 33 ⅓ * 1 Jan 2002
         Power transformers 30 * 1 Jan 2002
         Substations (incorporating switchgear and circuit breakers) 40 * 1 Jan 2002
     Passenger information and ticketing system 15 * 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 * 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 * 1 Jan 2002
             Light haul (trackwork carrying <1 GMT per annum) 50 * 1 Jan 2002
             Medium haul (trackwork carrying between 1GMT and 20 GMT per annum) 40 * 1 Jan 2002
         Freight (trackwork used by vehicles with gross axle loads above 30 tonnes per vehicle) 20 * 1 Jan 2002
         Passenger 40 * 1 Jan 2002
     Turnouts and crossings 20 * 1 Jan 2002
Rolling-stock:      
     Locomotives:      
         Generally (including diesel-electric and electric) 25 * 1 Jan 2002
         Heavy haul (bulk minerals/coal) 20 * 1 Jan 2002
         Underground (diesel-battery) 15 * 1 Jan 2002
     Passenger:   *  
         Electric/diesel power cars and trailers 30 * 1 Jan 2002
         Locomotive hauled carriages (including baggage vans, diners, mail vans, sit-up cars, and sleepers) 30 * 1 Jan 2002
         Power vans 15 * 1 Jan 2002
     Rail mounted track infrastructure assets:      
         Generally (including ballast wagons/cleaners/regulators, rail grinders, sleeper laying machines and track recorders) 20 * 1 Jan 2002
Mainline and switch tampers 15 * 1 Jan 2002
     Wagons - bulk freight:      
         Mineral ores and coal:      
             Carbon steel 20 * 1 Jan 2002
             Ferritic steel 30 * 1 Jan 2002
         Other:      
             Coke quencher 15 * 1 Jan 2002
             Grain hoppers 20 * 1 Jan 2002
             Limestone 20 * 1 Jan 2002
             Pneumatic discharge - cement 20 * 1 Jan 2002
             Used on tram lines 40   1 Jan 2001
         Tank cars 20 * 1 Jan 2002
     Wagons - non bulk freight (including all wagons used for general and inter-modal freight) 30 * 1 Jan 2002
Water transport and support services
( 48100 to 48200 ) and ( 52110 to 52190 )
Boats, ships, lighters, etc:      
     Boats (motor, rowing and sailing) 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Bulk carriers 16   1 Jan 2001
     Container ships 16   1 Jan 2001
     Ferry steamers 20   1 Jan 2001
     Flexible barges (collapsible bag type) 6 ⅔   1 Jan 2001
     Hovercraft 5   1 Jan 2001
     Launches 20   1 Jan 2001
     Lighters 20   1 Jan 2001
     Lighters (coal - wooden, iron or steel) 16 ⅔   1 Jan 2001
     Mini-submarine 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Offshore supply vessels 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Punts and rafts 20   1 Jan 2001
     Roll-on/roll-off ships 16   1 Jan 2001
     Ships and steamers 20   1 Jan 2001
     Surf boats, salvage 16 ⅔   1 Jan 2001
     Tankers (engaged primarily and principally in the tanker trade) 16   1 Jan 2001
     Trawler 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Tugs 20   1 Jan 2001
Port assets:      
     Cargo handling equipment:      
         Containers, transportable (used to transport goods by road, rail and sea) 10 * 1 Jan 2001
         Cranes:      
             Container/portainer 20 * 1 Jul 2002
             Fixed 25 * 1 Jul 2002
             Mobile (over 15.24 tonnes lift) 20 * 1 Jul 2002
         Dozers 9 * 1 Jul 2002
         Forklifts:      
             Container handling 7 ½ * 1 Jul 2002
             General handling 11 * 1 Jul 2002
         Rail mounted gantries 15 * 1 Jul 2002
         Reach stackers 10 * 1 Jul 2002
         Ship loaders 30 * 1 Jul 2002
         Ship unloaders 20 * 1 Jul 2002
         Spreaders 5 * 1 Jul 2002
         Stackers, reclaimers and stackers/reclaimers 25 * 1 Jul 2002
         Straddle carriers 12 ½ * 1 Jul 2002
         Wheel loaders 8 * 1 Jul 2002
     Control systems:      
         Control system assets - plc's and hardware 10 * 1 Jul 2002
         Motor control centre and motor control field devices 20 * 1 Jul 2002
     Environmental equipment:      
         Current, tidal, wave and wind monitoring systems 5 * 1 Jul 2002
         Oil spill containment boom 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Intermodal facilities:      
         Receival station assets (including belt feeder, hopper and tippler) 30 * 1 Jul 2002
         Truck and rail receival dump pit 50 * 1 Jul 2002
     Land based facilities:      
         Concrete rail beams and rails 30 * 1 Jul 2002
         Conveyor systems (incorporating chutes, gravity take-up assemblies, headframes, structures, surge bins, transfer towers and weigh towers) 30 * 1 Jul 2002
         Dust suppression systems 30 * 1 Jul 2002
         Electricity supply assets - see Table A electricity supply (26100 to 26400)   * 1 Jul 2002
         Storage sheds, to the extent they form an integral part of bulk handling equipment 40 * 1 Jul 2002
     Navigational aids:      
         Land based navigational aids 20 * 1 Jul 2002
         Offshore beacons, channel markers and lead lights:      
             Floating buoys 10 * 1 Jul 2002
             Piled structures 20 * 1 Jul 2002
     Other facilities:      
         Cathodic protection:      
             Impressed current system 30 * 1 Jul 2002
             Sacrificial system 15 * 1 Jul 2002
         Dry docks 40 * 1 Jul 2002
         Fender systems:      
             Elastomeric 20 * 1 Jul 2002
             Timber 10 * 1 Jul 2002
         Gangways - removable 10 * 1 Jul 2002
         Mooring facilities (including bollards) 40 * 1 Jul 2002
         Mooring quick release hooks 20 * 1 Jul 2002
         Pontoons - floating 20 * 1 Jul 2002
         Slipways (incorporating rails, ramps, runners and winching systems) 30 * 1 Jul 2002
         Wharves, dolphins and jetties 40 * 1 Jul 2002
Salvage machinery:      
     Boilers, vertical 40   1 Jan 2001
     Engine hoisting 40   1 Jan 2001
     Pumps:      
         Centrifugal, direct acting, and connections 40   1 Jan 2001
         Duplex boiler feed 40   1 Jan 2001
Aiport operations and other air transport support services
( 52200 )
Aircraft maintenance assets:      
     Aircraft testing equipment 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     General plant and machinery 20   1 Jan 2001
     Hangar fixtures and fittings 20   1 Jan 2001
     Plant subject to excessive corrosion 10   1 Jan 2001
     Precision machines and plant 10   1 Jan 2001
Aircraft training assets:      
     Flight simulators 8   1 Jan 2001
     Link trainers 8   1 Jan 2001
Airport assets:      
     Aerobridges 20 * 1 Jan 2003
     Baggage handling assets:      
         Baggage check-in stations (incorporating scales and check-in conveyors) 10 * 1 Jan 2003
         Baggage outbound conveyor systems (incorporating belts, diverters, gearboxes, motors, ploughs, rollers, structures and tag readers) 15 * 1 Jan 2003
         Baggage reclaim conveyor systems (incorporating belts, gearboxes, motors, rollers and structures) 15 * 1 Jan 2003
     Control systems (excluding computers) 10 * 1 Jan 2003
     Fire safety and rescue assets:      
         Breathing units 10 * 1 Jan 2003
         Drills, air powered 10 * 1 Jan 2003
         Fire fighting vehicles 20 * 1 Jan 2003
         Rescue boats:      
             Aluminium 20 * 1 Jan 2003
             Inflatable 8 * 1 Jan 2003
         Rescue units (jaws of life) 15 * 1 Jan 2003
     Fuel supply assets:      
         Aircraft fueller vehicles 15 * 1 Jan 2003
         Aircraft hydrant dispenser vehicles 15 * 1 Jan 2003
         Filters, fuel 25 * 1 Jan 2003
         Fire fighting systems 25 * 1 Jan 2003
         Piping 25 * 1 Jan 2003
         Pumps, fuel 25 * 1 Jan 2003
         Tanks 25 * 1 Jan 2003
     Ground support assets:      
         Aircraft loader/unloader vehicles 15 * 1 Jan 2003
         Aircraft stairs:     1 Jan 2003
             Manual 20 * 1 Jan 2003
             Vehicle mounted 15 * 1 Jan 2003
         Airstart units 15 * 1 Jan 2003
         Containers, air cargo (used to transport goods by air) 5 * 1 Jan 2001
         Ground power units 15 * 1 Jan 2003
         High lift service vehicles (including catering, lavatory, maintenance and water vehicles) 15 * 1 Jan 2003
         Tow tractors 20 * 1 Jan 2003
         Tractors, baggage 15 * 1 Jan 2003
         Tractor trolleys (including baggage and container trolleys, and dollies) 10 * 1 Jan 2003
     Navigation aids:      
         Distance measuring assets 15 * 1 Jan 2003
         Instrument landing systems 10 * 1 Jan 2003
         Non-directional beacons (excluding towers) 15 * 1 Jan 2003
         Radar sensors 15 * 1 Jan 2003
         Towers 30 * 1 Jan 2003
         VHF omni range assets (excluding towers) 15 * 1 Jan 2003
     Runway sweepers 15 * 1 Jan 2003
     Terminal building assets:      
         Flight information display signs (including monitors and LED screens) 7 * 1 Jan 2003
         Security scanning assets (including explosive detection systems, hand-held and walk through detectors, and x-ray screening systems) 5 * 1 Jan 2003
     Visual aids assets:      
         Docking guidance systems 10 * 1 Jan 2003
         Lighting systems (including apron floodlighting, runway lighting and taxiway lighting) 15 * 1 Jan 2003
         Movement area guidance signs 10 * 1 Jan 2003
         Visual approach slope indicator systems (PAPI) 15 * 1 Jan 2003
         Wind direction indicators, illuminated 10 * 1 Jan 2003
Other transport support services n . e . c .
( 52999 )
Electronic toll collection assets:      
     Electronic toll collection transponders 4 * 1 Jul 2005
     Digital measuring instruments (including vehicle - classifiers (laser or infra-red) and electronic toll - collection readers (radio frequency)) 4 * 1 Jul 2005
     Optical character recognition cameras 4 * 1 Jul 2005
ASSET LIFE ( YEARS ) REVIEWED DATE OF APPLICATION
INFORMATION MEDIA AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
( 54110 to 60200 )
Telecommunication services
( 58010 to 58090 )
Backbone network assets:      
     Conduits 40 * 1 Jul 2003
     Cross connects (including digital and optical) 15 * 1 Jul 2003
     Multiplexers (including wave division, terminal, and add-drop) 15 * 1 Jul 2003
     Optical amplifiers 15 * 1 Jul 2003
     Optical fibre cables 25 * 1 Jul 2003
     Optical patch panels 25 * 1 Jul 2003
     Regenerators 15 * 1 Jul 2003
International telecommunications submarine cable 15 * 1 Jul 2002
Microwave radio telecommunication assets:      
     Antennas (incorporating wave guide, pressurisation unit, dehydrator and data cable):      
         High capacity licensed microwave radio 10 * 1 Jul 2004
         Medium capacity licensed microwave radio 8 * 1 Jul 2004
         Low capacity licensed microwave radio 5 * 1 Jul 2004
     Microwave radio system including modulator, demodulator, receiver, transmitter, monitoring/supervisory system, RF filter:      
         High capacity licensed microwave radio system = 68Mb 10 * 1 Jul 2004
         Medium capacity licensed microwave radio system = 16Mb to <68Mb 8 * 1 Jul 2004
         Low capacity licensed microwave radio system < 16Mb 5 * 1 Jul 2004
         Class licence microwave radio system (including antenna) 3 * 1 Jul 2004
     Multiplexer 10 * 1 Jul 2004
     Towers (including guyed, lattice and steel or concrete poles) 25 * 1 Jul 2004
Mobile telecommunications assets:      
     Base station assets:      
         Antennas, battery backup, radio transmitters/receivers and rectifiers 6 * 1 Jul 2002
         Towers 25 * 1 Jul 2002
     Base station controller hardware 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Microwave assets (including antennas, electronic multiplexers and transmitters/receivers) 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Mobile switching centre hardware 10 * 1 Jul 2002
Satellite communication assets:      
     Communications satellites (geosynchronous orbit) 15 * 1 Jan 2005
     High power amplifiers 12 * 1 Jan 2005
     Multiplexers 10 * 1 Jan 2005
     Satellite antennas:      
         Electronic components, external (including low noise amplifiers) 8 * 1 Jan 2005
         Non-tracking antenna systems (incorporating data cables, dehydrators, pressurisation units, and wave guides) 8 * 1 Jan 2005
         Tracking antenna systems (incorporating antenna tracking motors, controllers, data cables, dehydrators, gearboxes, pressurisation units and wave guides) 20 * 1 Jan 2005
     Satellite earth station electronic assets (including bandwidth managers, decoders, demodulators downconverters, encoders, filters, modulators, receivers, transmitters and upconverters) 10 * 1 Jan 2005
     Satellite telemetry and control systems 15 * 1 Jan 2005
Telecommunications assets:      
     Air-conditioning units 5 * 1 Jul 2002
     Batteries, rectifiers 6 * 1 Jul 2002
     Racks 20 * 1 Jul 2003
     Equipment shelters (transportable) 25 * 1 Jul 2003
Motion picture and sound recording activities
( 55110 to 55140 )
Camera accessories:      
     Aspect ratio converters 12 * 1 Jan 2006
     Digital or electronic time code slates 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Speed control, time lapse and phase adjustment controls 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Time code generators and master clocks 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Underwater and marine housings and rain deflectors 12 * 1 Jan 2006
     Video assist systems (incorporating monitors, video recorder with playback, transmitters and receivers) 3 * 1 Jan 2006
Cameras:      
         Digital cameras 5 * 1 Jan 2006
         16mm and 35mm film cameras 10 * 1 Jan 2006
Camera lens accessories:      
     Coloured and graduated filters and filter stages 3 * 1 Jan 2006
     Fish eye and wide angle lens adapters 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Follow focus, remote focus, shutter and zoom controls 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Image stabilisers, matte boxes, and teleprompters 10 * 1 Jan 2006
Camera lenses 10 * 1 Jan 2006
Camera supports (including heads, legs mounts and tripods) 10 * 1 Jan 2006
Copyright in a feature film (not including a licence relating to a copyright in a feature film) 5 * 1 Jul 2004
Grips' assets:      
     Camera cranes 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Camera heads 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Car rigs, sea rigs and other specialised rigs 2 * 1 Jan 2006
     Communications systems 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Dollies 12 * 1 Jan 2006
     Dolly and camera attachments 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Dolly track 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Remote camera control systems 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Towers, rigging, and dance floors 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Tracking vehicles and insert trailers (see entries for Trucks and Trailers under the heading "Motor vehicles, etc" in Table B)      
Lighting assets:      
     Accessories (including gaffer grips, clamps, mounts, and stands) 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Portable lights 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Studio lights - fixed 15 * 1 Jan 2006
     Lighting control systems 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Lighting grids - fixed 20 * 1 Jan 2006
     Lighting hoists 15 * 1 Jan 2006
Motion picture film processing assets:      
     Chemical agitators and mixers 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Chemical storage tanks 15 * 1 Jan 2006
     Film cleaning machines 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Film densitometers 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Film printing machines 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Film processing machines 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Film re-winders 15 * 1 Jan 2006
     Flat bed and rear projection film viewers 15 * 1 Jan 2006
     Film colour analysers and colour grading machines 8 * 1 Jan 2006
     Optical sound camera systems (incorporating soundtrack and time code generators) 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Mixed chemical pumps 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Silver recovery units 8 * 1 Jan 2006
     Sound quality control processors 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Waste water treatment assets 10 * 1 Jan 2006
Post production sound assets:      
     Amplifiers and pre-amplifiers 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Audio effects units (incorporating: aural exciters, compressors, delay and effects control processors graphic equalisers, harmonisers, limiters, noise reduction processors, reverberation processors, telephone simulators, and time controllers 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Digital audio players and recorders (including CD, DVD, DAT (digital audio tape), mini disc and hard disc players and recorders) 3 * 1 Jan 2006
     Digital film projectors 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Digital sound conversion processors (including encoders and decoders) 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Hard disc video players and recorders 3 * 1 Jan 2006
     Microphones and microphone accessories 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Motion picture film projectors 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Screens 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Sound mixing desks and consoles 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Speakers 7 * 1 Jan 2006
     Time code synchronisation units 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Video routers and servers 5 * 1 Jan 2006
Post production video assets:      
     DVD players 3 * 1 Jan 2006
     Edit controllers (used in linear editing) 4 * 1 Jan 2006
     High definition digital film scanners 4 * 1 Jan 2006
     High definition laser film recorders 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Monitors 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Motion capture and analysis systems 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Non-linear editing systems (incorporating computer control, interface and hard disc system) 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Telecine chain (incorporating colour correctors, film time code readers, grain and noise reduction systems and telecine machine) 7 * 1 Jan 2006
     VHS video cassette players and recorders 2 * 1 Jan 2006
     Video routers and servers 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Videotape players and recorders 5 * 1 Jan 2006
Screening theatre assets:      
     Audio amplification and processing equipment (includes component racks systems) 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Digital audio players, digital film projectors and digital sound conversion processors 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Motion picture film projectors 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Screens 8 * 1 Jan 2006
     Speakers 10 * 1 Jan 2006
Sound recording assets:      
     Amplifiers and pre-amplifiers 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Sound mixing consoles 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Boom poles 2 * 1 Jan 2006
     Compressors, expanders and limiters 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Digital audio players and recorders (including CD, DVD, DAT (digital audio tape), mini disc and hard disc players and recorders) 2 * 1 Jan 2006
     Digital or electronic time code slates 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Headphones:      
         Generally 2 * 1 Jan 2006
         Miniature in-ear headphones 1 * 1 Jan 2006
     Microphones:      
         Field or boom microphones 7 * 1 Jan 2006
         Lapel microphones 1 * 1 Jan 2006
         Microphone cables 2 * 1 Jan 2006
         Microphone accessories (including adapters, connectors, stands, suspension mounts, pistol grips, windscreens and windjammers) 5 * 1 Jan 2006
         Radio microphone systems (incorporating antennas, miniature microphones, receivers and transmitters) 5 * 1 Jan 2006
         Studio microphones 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Monitors 2 * 1 Jan 2006
     Speakers 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Vision switchers 5 * 1 Jan 2006
Video monitors 5 * 1 Jan 2006
Motion picture exhibition
( 55130 )
Audio amplification and processing equipment (includes component rack systems) 10 * 1 Jan 2001
Carpets 5 * 1 Jan 2001
Cinema automation system 10 * 1 Jan 2001
Cinema and sound processor 8 * 1 Jan 2001
Cinema seating (includes frame, seat body and cover) 7 * 1 Jan 2001
Curtains, wall and acoustic treatments 7 * 1 Jan 2001
Drive-in plant:      
     Sound transmission equipment 10 * 1 Jan 2001
Listening units (including posts, wiring and speaker equipment) 10 * 1 Jan 2001
Screens and screen framing 15 * 1 Jan 2001
Film handling and maintenance equipment (includes splicers, footage counters, spools and reels, stripper plates, rewinders, spinners, trolleys and cleaners) 10 * 1 Jan 2001
Film transport system (includes platter systems, tower, make-up tables and interlock systems) 15 * 1 Jan 2001
Lighting (includes dimmers, aisle and seat) 10 * 1 Jan 2001
Loud speakers and sound reproduction equipment 10 * 1 Jan 2001
Motion picture and slide projection equipment:      
     Motion picture projector 10 * 1 Jan 2001
     Projector heat extraction system 10 * 1 Jan 2001
     Projection port 20 * 1 Jan 2001
     Slide projector 10 * 1 Jan 2001
Screen installations (includes screens, framing and masking equipment) 8 * 1 Jan 2001
Radio broadcasting
( 56100 )
Radio broadcasting equipment:      
     Computer automated 10   1 Jan 2001
     General plant 6 ⅔   1 Jan 2001
     Steel masts 40   1 Jan 2001
Television broadcasting
( 56210 to 56220 )
Audio boards, consoles and mixers 12 * 1 Jul 2005
Audio delay units 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Audio effects units (including compression units, delay units, graphic equalisers and reverberation units) 12 * 1 Jul 2005
Automated tape library systems (incorporating robotic controls and tape drives) 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Broadcast antennas 20 * 1 Jul 2005
Broadcast interfacing assets (including aspect ratio converters, distribution amplifiers, sync pulse generators, timecode generators and readers and other 'glue' assets) 12 * 1 Jul 2005
Cameras:      
     Portable cameras (including camcorders, electronic field production (EFP) and electronic news gathering (ENG) cameras) 8 * 1 Jul 2005
     Studio cameras 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Camera control units 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Camera lens accessories (including adapters, filters, matte boxes and stabilisers) 12 * 1 Jul 2005
Camera lenses 12 * 1 Jul 2005
Camera mounting heads 15 * 1 Jul 2005
Camera mounts (including cranes, jibs, pedestals and tripods) 25 * 1 Jul 2005
Camera pan tilt and pedestal robotic systems (incorporating integrated hardware and control unit) 12 * 1 Jul 2005
Character and graphics generating assets - standalone (including character generators, paintboxes and stillstores) 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Digital audio players and recorders (including CD players and recorders, DAT players, DVD players and recorders, and Mini-disc players and recorders) 5 * 1 Jul 2005
Digital video effects (DVE) units - standalone 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Edit controllers (used in linear editing and audio post-production) 8 * 1 Jul 2005
Hard disk recorders 5 * 1 Jul 2005
Intercommunication systems 15 * 1 Jul 2005
Lighting:      
     Portable lighting 12 * 1 Jul 2005
     Studio lighting 15 * 1 Jul 2005
Lighting control systems 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Lighting grids - fixed 40 * 1 Jul 2005
Lighting hoists 15 * 1 Jul 2005
     Microphones:      
     Field or boom microphones 5 * 1 Jul 2005
     Miniature or 'lapel' microphones 5 * 1 Jul 2005
     Radio microphone systems (incorporating antennas, miniature microphones, receivers and transmitters) 5 * 1 Jul 2005
     Studio or fixed microphones 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Microphone booms 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Microwave telecommunications assets - see Table A Telecommunications services (58010 to 58090)      
Mobile production vehicles (excluding the assets contained within) - see Table B Motor Vehicles      
Monitors:      
     Audio monitors 10 * 1 Jul 2005
     Video monitors:      
         Cathode ray tube ('CRT') monitors 8 * 1 Jul 2005
         LCD and Plasma monitors 5 * 1 Jul 2005
         Virtual monitor wall systems (including rear projection monitor walls) 5 * 1 Jul 2005
Non-linear editing systems (incorporating computer control, interface and hard disk system) 4 * 1 Jul 2005
Presentation automation systems 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Racks 20 * 1 Jul 2005
RF Modulation units 12 * 1 Jul 2005
Routing systems (incorporating control panels, hardware and switchers): 11 * 1 Jul 2005
Satellite telecommunications assets - see Table A Telecommunications services (58010 to 58090)      
Servers (excluding data servers) 8 * 1 Jul 2005
Signal measurement, monitoring and testing assets (including modulation monitors, RF analysers, test signal generators, vectorscopes and waveform monitors) 12 * 1 Jul 2005
Slow motion controllers 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Switchers (including master control, presentation and production switchers) 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Teleprompters 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Translators 15 * 1 Jul 2005
Transmission towers 40 * 1 Jul 2005
Transmitters 15 * 1 Jul 2005
Transmitting masts (for mobile production vehicles) 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Under monitor and tally display systems 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Videocassette recorders 5 * 1 Jul 2005
Videotape players and recorders 8 * 1 Jul 2005
Library and other information services
( 60100 to 60200 )
Libraries:      
     Circulating (all classes of books) 10   1 Jan 2001
     Music lending 6 ⅔   1 Jan 2001
ASSET LIFE ( YEARS ) REVIEWED DATE OF APPLICATION
FINANCE AND INSURANCE SERVICES
( 62100 to 64200 )
Banks:      
     Demountable strongrooms 100   1 Jan 2001
     Portable safes 40   1 Jan 2001
     Strongroom doors 100   1 Jan 2001
ASSET LIFE ( YEARS ) REVIEWED DATE OF APPLICATION
RENTAL, HIRING AND REAL ESTATE SERVICES
( 66110 to 67200 )
Rental and hiring services ( except real estate )
( 66110 to 67200 )
If the asset is hired or leased to and used predominantly by a particular industry and not listed below see the entry under Table A for that industry.      
Air Compressors:      
Air hoses 1 * 1 Jul 2005
Compressors - reciprocating 7 * 1 Jul 2005
Compressors - rotary screw 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Compaction:      
Compactors - flat plate 8 * 1 Jul 2005
Compactors - vertical rammer 6 * 1 Jul 2005
Concreting Assets:      
Brick/paving saws 5 * 1 Jul 2005
Concrete demolition saws 3 * 1 Jul 2005
Concrete kibble buckets 15 * 1 Jul 2005
Concrete mixers 5 * 1 Jul 2005
Concrete surface preparation assets (including floor grinders and planers) 5 * 1 Jul 2005
Concrete trowels (helicopter style) 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Concrete vibrators - brushcutter style 5 * 1 Jul 2005
Concrete vibrators - shaft 3 * 1 Jul 2005
Concrete vibrators - drive unit 6 * 1 Jul 2005
Concrete wheeled saws 6 * 1 Jul 2005
Generators:      
Cables 5 * 1 Jul 2005
Distribution boards 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Diesel 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Petrol 5 * 1 Jul 2005
Generator with attached lighting plant 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Household assets:      
     Clothes dryers 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Digital video display (DVD) players 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Dishwashers 8 * 1 Jan 2006
     Evaporative coolers, portable 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Freezers 6 * 1 Jan 2006
     Microwave ovens 6 * 1 Jan 2006
     Refrigerators 6 * 1 Jan 2006
     Stereo systems (incorporating amplifiers, cassette players, compact disc players, radios and speakers) 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Surround sound systems (incorporating audio-video receivers and speakers) 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Television sets 8 * 1 Jan 2006
     Vacuum cleaners, portable 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Video cassette recorder systems (VCR) 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Washing machines 6 * 1 Jan 2006
Power tools:      
Chainsaws 3 * 1 Jul 2005
Hand tools - air 5 * 1 Jul 2005
Hand tools - battery 4 * 1 Jul 2005
Hand tools - electric 5 * 1 Jul 2005
Jackhammers - air 7 * 1 Jul 2005
Jackhammers - electric 3 * 1 Jul 2005
Nail guns - air 3 * 1 Jul 2005
Traffic management assets:      
Crash prevention assets:      
     Barriers:      
         Concrete 30 * 1 Jan 2006
         Plastic 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     Crash attenuators (truck mounted) 10 * 1 Jan 2006
Road marking assets:      
     < 100 litre capacity 5 * 1 Jan 2006
     100 to 500 litre capacity 9 * 1 Jan 2006
     > 500 litre capacity 11 * 1 Jan 2006
     Line grinders (walk behind) 5 * 1 Jan 2006
Traffic management signs:      
     Arrow boards 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Speed observation signs 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Traffic lights - mobile 10 * 1 Jan 2006
     Variable message signs 10 * 1 Jan 2006
Static signage (including safety cones, barricades, warning signs and bollards) 3 * 1 Jan 2006
Welders:      
Cables and handpieces 5 * 1 Jul 2005
Diesel 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Electric 5 * 1 Jul 2005
Note where the terms 'freestanding' and 'fixed' are used in entries for this industry category, they have the following meaning.
Freestanding -items designed to be portable or movable. Any attachment to the premises is only for the item's temporary stability.
Fixed - annexed or attached by any means, for example screws, nails, bolts, glue, adhesive, grout or cement, but not merely for temporary stability.
Residential property operators
( 67110 )
Assets generally:      
     Air conditioning assets (excluding ducting, pipes and vents):      
         Air handling units 20 * 1 Jul 2003
         Chillers:      
             Absorption 25 * 1 Jul 2003
             Centrifugal 20 * 1 Jul 2003
             Volumetrics (including reciprocating, rotary, screw, scroll):      
                 Air-cooled 15 * 1 Jul 2003
                 Water-cooled 20 * 1 Jul 2003
         Condensing sets 15 * 1 Jul 2003
         Cooling towers 15 * 1 Jul 2003
         Damper motors (including variable air volume box controller) 10 * 1 Jul 2003
         Fan coil units (connected to condensing set) 15 * 1 Jul 2003
         Mini split systems up to 20KW (including ceiling, floor and high wall split system) 10 * 1 Jul 2003
         Packaged air conditioning units 15 * 1 Jul 2003
         Pumps 20 * 1 Jul 2003
         Room units 10 * 1 Jul 2003
     Ceiling fans 5 * 1 Jul 2004
     Clocks, electric 10 * 1 Jul 2004
     Digital video display (DVD) players 5 * 1 Jul 2004
     Door closers 10 * 1 Jul 2004
     Door stops, freestanding 10 * 1 Jul 2004
     Escalators (machinery and moving parts) 20 * 1 Jan 2003
     Evaporative coolers:      
         Fixed (excluding ducting and vents) 20 * 1 Jul 2005
         Portable 10 * 1 Jul 2005
     Floor coverings (removable without damage):      
         Carpet 10   1 Jan 2001
         Floating timber 15 * 1 Jul 2004
         Linoleum 10   1 Jan 2001
         Vinyl 10   1 Jan 2001
     Furniture, freestanding 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Garbage bins 10 * 1 Jul 2004
     Garbage compacting systems (excluding chutes) 6 ⅔   1 Jan 2001
     Generators 20   1 Jan 2001
     Gym assets:      
         Cardiovascular 5 * 1 Jul 2004
         Resistance 10 * 1 Jul 2004
     Hand dryers, electrical 10   1 Jan 2001
     Heaters:      
         Fixed:      
             Electric 15 * 1 Jul 2004
             Gas:      
                 Ducted central heating unit 20 * 1 Jul 2004
                 Other 15 * 1 Jul 2004
         Freestanding 15 * 1 Jul 2004
     Hot water systems (excluding piping):      
         Electric 12 * 1 Jul 2004
         Gas 12 * 1 Jul 2004
         Solar 15 * 1 Jul 2004
     Intercom system assets 10 * 1 Jul 2004
     Lifts (including hydraulic and traction lifts) 30 * 1 Jan 2003
     Lights:      
         Fittings (excluding hardwired) 5 * 1 Jul 2004
         Freestanding 5 * 1 Jul 2004
         Shades, removable 5 * 1 Jul 2004
     Linen 5 * 1 Jul 2004
     Master antenna television (MATV) assets:      
         Amplifiers 10 * 1 Jul 2004
         Modulators 10 * 1 Jul 2004
         Power sources 10 * 1 Jul 2004
     Mirrors, freestanding 15 * 1 Jul 2004
     Radios 10   1 Jan 2001
     Rugs 7 * 1 Jul 2004
     Solar power generating system assets 20 * 1 Jul 2004
     Stereo systems (incorporating amplifiers, cassette players, compact disc players, radios and speakers) 7 * 1 Jul 2004
     Surround sound systems (incorporating audio-video receivers and speakers) 10 * 1 Jul 2004
     Telecommunications assets:      
         Cordless phones 4 * 1 Jul 2004
         PABX computerised assets 10 * 1 Jul 2004
         Telephone hand sets 10 * 1 Jul 2004
     Television antennas, freestanding 5 * 1 Jul 2004
     Television sets 10 * 1 Jul 2004
     Vacuum cleaners:      
         Ducted:      
             Hoses 10 * 1 Jul 2004
             Motors 10 * 1 Jul 2004
             Wands 10 * 1 Jul 2004
         Portable 10   1 Jan 2001
     Ventilation fans 20 * 1 Jul 2004
     Video cassette recorder systems (VCR) 5 * 1 Jul 2004
     Water pumps 20   1 Jan 2001
     Window blinds, internal 10 * 1 Jul 2004`
     Window curtains 6 * 1 Jul 2004
     Window shutters, automatic:      
         Controls 10 * 1 Jul 2004
         Motors 10 * 1 Jul 2004
Bathroom assets:      
     Accessories, freestanding (including shower caddies, soap holders, toilet brushes) 5 * 1 Jul 2004
     Exhaust fans (including light/heating) 10 * 1 Jul 2004
     Heated towel rails, electric 10 * 1 Jul 2004
     Shower curtains (excluding curtain rods and screens) 2 * 1 Jul 2004
     Spa bath pumps 20 * 1 Jul 2004
Fire control assets:      
     Alarms:      
         Heat 6 * 1 Jul 2004
         Smoke 6 * 1 Jul 2004
     Detection and alarm systems:      
         Alarm bells 12 * 1 Jul 2004
         Detectors (including addressable manual call points, heat, multi type and smoke) 20 * 1 Jul 2004
         Fire indicator panels 12 * 1 Jul 2004
     Emergency warning and intercommunication systems (EWIS):      
         Master emergency control panels 12 * 1 Jul 2004
         Speakers 12 * 1 Jul 2004
         Strobe lights 12 * 1 Jul 2004
         Warden intercom phone 12 * 1 Jul 2004
     Extinguishers 15 * 1 Jul 2004
     Hoses and nozzles 10 * 1 Jul 2004
     Pumps (including diesel and electric) 25 * 1 Jul 2004
     Stair pressurisation assets:      
         A C variable speed drives 10 * 1 Jul 2004
         Pressurisation and extraction fans 25 * 1 Jul 2004
         Sensors 10 * 1 Jul 2004
Kitchen assets:      
     Cook tops 12 * 1 Jul 2004
     Crockery 5 * 1 Jul 2004
     Cutlery 5 * 1 Jul 2004
     Dishwashers 10 * 1 Jul 2004
     Freezers 12 * 1 Jul 2004
     Garbage disposal units 10 * 1 Jul 2004
     Microwave ovens 10 * 1 Jul 2004
     Ovens 12 * 1 Jul 2004
     Range hoods 12 * 1 Jul 2004
     Refrigerators 12 * 1 Jul 2004
     Stoves 12 * 1 Jul 2004
     Water filters, electrical 15 * 1 Jul 2004
Laundry assets:      
     Clothes dryers 10 * 1 Jul 2004
     Ironing boards, freestanding 7 * 1 Jul 2004
     Irons 5 * 1 Jul 2004
     Washing machines 10 * 1 Jul 2004
Outdoor assets:      
     Automatic garage doors:      
         Controls 5 * 1 Jul 2004
         Motors 10 * 1 Jul 2004
     Barbecue assets:      
         Fixed barbecue assets:      
             Sliding trays and cookers 10 * 1 Jul 2004
         Freestanding barbecues 5 * 1 Jul 2004
     Floor carpet (including artificial grass and matting) 5 * 1 Jul 2004
     Furniture, freestanding 5 * 1 Jul 2004
     Gardening watering installations:      
         Control panels 5 * 1 Jul 2004
         Pumps 5 * 1 Jul 2004
         Timing devices 5 * 1 Jul 2004
     Garden lights, solar 8 * 1 Jul 2004
     Garden sheds, freestanding 15 * 1 Jul 2004
     Gates, electrical:      
         Controls 5 * 1 Jul 2004
         Motors 10 * 1 Jul 2004
     Operable pergola louvres:      
         Controls 15 * 1 Jul 2004
         Motors 15 * 1 Jul 2004
     Sauna heating assets 15 * 1 Jul 2004
     Sewage treatment assets:      
         Controls 8 * 1 Jul 2004
         Motors 8 * 1 Jul 2004
     Spas:      
         Fixed spa assets:      
             Chlorinators 12 * 1 Jul 2004
             Filtration assets (including pumps) 12 * 1 Jul 2004
             Heaters (electric or gas) 15 * 1 Jul 2004
         Freestanding spas (incorporating blowers, controls, filters, heaters and pumps) 17 * 1 Jul 2004
     Swimming pool assets:      
         Chlorinators 12 * 1 Jul 2004
         Cleaning assets 7 * 1 Jul 2004
         Filtration assets (including pumps) 12 * 1 Jul 2004
         Heaters:      
             Electric 15 * 1 Jul 2004
             Gas 15 * 1 Jul 2004
             Solar 20 * 1 Jul 2004
     Tennis court assets:      
         Cleaners 3 * 1 Jul 2004
         Drag brooms 3 * 1 Jul 2004
         Nets 5 * 1 Jul 2004
         Rollers 3 * 1 Jul 2004
         Umpire chairs 15 * 1 Jul 2004
Security and monitoring assets:      
     Access control systems:      
         Code pads 5 * 1 Jul 2004
         Door controllers 5 * 1 Jul 2004
         Readers:      
             Proximity 7 * 1 Jul 2004
             Swipe card 3 * 1 Jul 2004
     Closed circuit television systems:      
         Cameras 4 * 1 Jul 2004
         Monitors 4 * 1 Jul 2004
         Recorders:      
             Digital 4 * 1 Jul 2004
             Time lapse 2 * 1 Jul 2004
         Switching units (including multiplexes) 5 * 1 Jul 2004
     Security systems:      
         Code pads 5 * 1 Jul 2004
         Control panels 5 * 1 Jul 2004
         Detectors (including passive infra-red, photo sensors and vibration) 5 * 1 Jul 2004
         Global System for Mobiles (GSM) Units 5 * 1 Jul 2004
         Noise makers (including bells and sirens) 5 * 1 Jul 2004
Non - residential property operators
( 67120 )
Refer to assets shown in Table B that are used in commercial office buildings      
ASSET LIFE ( YEARS ) REVIEWED DATE OF APPLICATION
PROFESSIONAL , SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SERVICES
( 69100 TO 70000 )
Surveying and mapping services
( 69220 )
Surveyors' instruments:      
     Geodimeter (electronic) 10   1 Jan 2001
     Laser beam survey equipment 10   1 Jan 2001
     Levels 20   1 Jan 2001
     Stereoplotters (for making surveys from aerial photography etc) 10   1 Jan 2001
     Theodolites 20   1 Jan 2001
Veterinary services
( 69700 )
Veterinarians' assets:      
     Anaesthesia machines 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Animal blow dryers 5 * 1 Jan 2004
     Animal cages:      
         Fibreglass, plastic and polyethylene cages 10 * 1 Jan 2004
         Stainless steel cages 20 * 1 Jan 2004
     Animal patient monitoring assets (including blood pressure monitors, CO2 end-tidal monitors, ECGs and pulse oximeters) 7 * 1 Jan 2004
     Animal scales 7 * 1 Jan 2004
     Dental assets:      
         Dental units 10 * 1 Jan 2004
         Ultrasonic scalers (standalone) 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Diagnostic assets (including ophthalmoscope, otoscope, handles and power supply) 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Electrocautery units 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Electroejaculators 6 * 1 Jan 2004
     Hydrobaths 8 * 1 Jan 2004
     Pathology assets:      
         Centrifuges 5 * 1 Jan 2004
         Laboratory analysers:      
             Electrolyte analysers 4 * 1 Jan 2004
             Generally 5 * 1 Jan 2004
         Microscopes 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Surgery lights 10 * 1 Jan 2004
     Tables and tubs 20 * 1 Jan 2004
     Ultrasound systems (incorporating scanner, transducers, integrated computer and integrated software) 5 * 1 Jan 2004
     X-ray assets (excluding direct radiography assets):      
         Mobile or portable x-ray units 10 * 1 Jan 2004
         X-ray processors - automatic 10 * 1 Jan 2004
ASSET LIFE ( YEARS ) REVIEWED DATE OF APPLICATION
ADMINISTRATIVE AND SUPPORT SERVICES
( 72110 TO 73200 )
Building cleaning , pest control and other support services
( 73110 to 73200 )
ASSET LIFE (YEARS ) REVIEWED DATE OF APPLICATION
Arboriculture and gardening services:      
     Blowers 3 * 1 Jan 2004
     Brushcutters (including whipper snippers) 2 * 1 Jan 2004
     Chainsaws (including pole pruners) 2 * 1 Jan 2004
     Elevating work platforms 15 * 1 Jan 2004
     Hand tools (including pruner, rake, hedge shears, loppers and tree saws) 3 * 1 Jan 2004
     Hedge trimmers 4 * 1 Jan 2004
     Lawn edgers (excluding brushcutters) 4 * 1 Jan 2004
     Lawn mowers:      
         Cylinder 7 * 1 Jan 2004
         Push (rotary) 2 * 1 Jan 2004
         Self propelled (rotary) 2 * 1 Jan 2004
         Ride-ons 5 * 1 Jan 2004
     Stump grinders 5 * 1 Jan 2004
     Tractors 8 * 1 Jan 2004
     Tractor attachments:      
         Roller mowers 4 * 1 Jan 2004
         Slashers 4 * 1 Jan 2004
     Trailers used to carry tree and grass clippings 5 * 1 Jan 2004
     Tree climbing assets:      
         Climbing hardware (including carabineers, figure of 8 and lowering pullies) 1 * 1 Jan 2004
         Climbing spurs 10 * 1 Jan 2004
         Friction lowering devices 10 * 1 Jan 2004
         Harness 3 * 1 Jan 2004
         Ropes 1 * 1 Jan 2004
     Wood chippers 8 * 1 Jan 2004
ASSET LIFE ( YEARS ) REVIEWED DATE OF APPLICATION
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
( 80100 to 82200 )
Kindergarten furniture and play equipment 5   1 Jan 2001
ASSET LIFE ( YEARS ) REVIEWED DATE OF APPLICATION
HEALTH CARE AND SOCIAL ASSISTANCE
( 84010 to 87900 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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
ASSET LIFE ( YEARS ) REVIEWED DATE OF APPLICATION
ARTS AND RECREATION SERVICES
( 89100 to 92099 )
Heritage activities
( 89100 to 89220 )
Museum displays in aircraft/war museums 100   1 Jan 2001
Parks and gardens:      
     Lion park:      
         Animal cages and sheds 20   1 Jan 2001
         Animal huts 10   1 Jan 2001
     Planetarium dome 33 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Sea life centre:      
         Fibreglass aquarium tanks 20   1 Jan 2001
         Ketch 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
         TV audio system 10   1 Jan 2001
Creative and performing arts activities
( 90010 to 90030 )
ASSET LIFE (YEARS ) REVIEWED DATE OF APPLICATION
Theatre equipment:      
     Accessories (theatrical - wigs, costumes, etc) 5   1 Jan 2001
Sport, gambling and recreation services
( 91110 to 92099 )
Amusement machines and equipment:      
     Coin-operated amusement machines:      
         Children's rides 5 * 1 Jul 2001
         Convertible video game/simulator (cabinet) 5 ½ * 1 Jul 2001
         Dedicated video game/simulator 3 ½ * 1 Jul 2001
         Interchangeable video game kit 1 * 1 Jul 2001
         Juke box (compact disc) 10 * 1 Jul 2001
         Photo-image machines 3 ½ * 1 Jul 2001
         Pinball machines 3 ½ * 1 Jul 2001
         Pool/Billiard tables 10 * 1 Jul 2001
         Redemption games (prizes/tickets) 5 ½ * 1 Jul 2001
         Table games (including air hockey, soccer, etc.) 5 ½ * 1 Jul 2001
     Billiard tables 40   1 Jan 2001
     Rides and devices (fixed or mobile):      
         Chair-o-planes 15 * 1 Jan 2002
         Children's indoor soft playgrounds 5 * 1 Jan 2002
         Children's rides (designed for the carriage of children less than 8 years old) 15 * 1 Jan 2002
         Ferris wheels 25 * 1 Jan 2002
         Free falls (including giant drop and tower of terror) 25 * 1 Jan 2002
         Inflatables (including jumping castles) 5 * 1 Jan 2002
         Overhead transit devices (including chair lifts and cabin lifts) 25 * 1 Jan 2002
         Roller coasters:      
                 Non-powered (including corkscrew loop, looping coasters and mini roller coasters - wild cat, madmouse) 25 * 1 Jan 2002
                 Powered (including tornado) 15 * 1 Jan 2002
         Round rides with or without additional motions (including merry-go-rounds) 15 * 1 Jan 2002
         Self-drive non-powered gravity rides (including toboggans and bob-sleds):      
                 Track 20 * 1 Jan 2002
                 Vehicle 5 * 1 Jan 2002
         Self-drive powered rides (including dodgems and go-karts):      
                 Track 15 * 1 Jan 2002
                 Vehicle 5 * 1 Jan 2002
         Simulators 10 * 1 Jan 2002
         Swinging rides (including pirate ship, spaceloop, and rainbow) 15 * 1 Jan 2002
         Trains, tracked or trackless (including tractor trains and miniature railways) 10 * 1 Jan 2002
         Water rides 20 * 1 Jan 2002
         Water slides 'gravity powered' 20 * 1 Jan 2002
Bowling centres (plant and equipment):      
     Bowling alleys (timber - including ball return tracks, gutters, pit signals and terminals) 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Bowling balls 5   1 Jan 2001
     Masking units 10   1 Jan 2001
     Pin setters and pin spotters 10   1 Jan 2001
     Other equipment 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Golf courses (miniature):      
     Lighting plant, electric motors, moving parts 20   1 Jan 2001
     Lighting standards 40   1 Jan 2001
     Carpets on stairways 3   1 Jan 2001
Gymnasium equipment 10   1 Jan 2001
Marina operation:      
     Boat cradles 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Boat storage racks 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Forklifts 11 * 1 Jul 2002
     Marina - wet berths (incorporating piling, decking and floating pontoons) 20 * 1 Jul 2002
     Mooring buoys 10 * 1 Jul 2002
     Travel lifts 15 * 1 Jul 2002
Poker machines 5   1 Jan 2001
Racehorses 10   1 Jan 2001
Racing cars 2   1 Jan 2001
Shuffle boards 10   1 Jan 2001
Skating rink plant:      
     Fittings (open air) 20   1 Jan 2001
     General freezing plant and equipment 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     Hired ice skating boots 5   1 Jan 2001
     Roller skates 5   1 Jan 2001
     Surface (synthetic panels) 10   1 Jan 2001
Ski equipment (skis, boots and stocks for hiring to public) 3   1 Jan 2001
Ski maintenance machine 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Space theatre dome 33 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Tennis court surface:      
     Bitumen 20   1 Jan 2001
     Plexipave 20   1 Jan 2001
     Synthetic lawn 10   1 Jan 2001
Totalisator:      
     Computer equipment 10   1 Jan 2001
     Ancillary equipment (eg ticket issuing machines) 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Trampolines 10   1 Jan 2001
ASSET LIFE ( YEARS ) REVIEWED DATE OF APPLICATION
OTHER SERVICES
( 94110 to 96030 )
Automative repair and maintenance
( 94110 to 94199 )
Motor garage equipment:      
     Automatic car-washing machines 6 ⅔   1 Jan 2001
     Automotive parts cleaner:      
         Pump 4   1 Jan 2001
         Drum 10   1 Jan 2001
     Drums 4   1 Jan 2001
     Kerbside tanks 10   1 Jan 2001
     Motor vehicle repairing plant and machinery 10   1 Jan 2001
     Self-service pump installations (comprising pump and coin unit) 10   1 Jan 2001
     Trade utensils (including sales and garage equipment) 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
Personal and other services
( 95110 to 95291 )
Cleaners' plant:      
     Electronic floor polishers 10   1 Jan 2001
Dry cleaning plant 10   1 Jan 2001
Funeral directors' plant 20   1 Jan 2001
Hairdressers' plant (including, partitions, cubicles, neon lighting tubes and wash basins) 20   1 Jan 2001
Laundry plant:      
     General plant 10   1 Jan 2001
     Washing machines 6 ⅔   1 Jan 2001
Photographers' plant:      
     Automatic film processing machine 6 ⅔   1 Jan 2001
     Cameras:      
         Used for street photography 4   1 Jan 2001
         Other (including lenses, electronic flash units, enlargers, etc.) 10   1 Jan 2001
     Dark rooms (demountable - not integral part of building) 20   1 Jan 2001
Photo engraving plant:      
     Automatic (dark room) cameras 10   1 Jan 2001
     Power operated proofing presses 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
     General plant 20   1 Jan 2001
     Powderless etching machines 10   1 Jan 2001
Photo lab (one - hour service) 10   1 Jan 2001
Video recorder or equipment hiring 6 ⅔   1 Jan 2001
Video tapes and games hiring ½ * 1 Jan 2001

Effective lives (Asset Categories)
Table B as at 1 July 2006

ASSET LIFE (YEARS) REVIEWED DATE OF APPLICATION
 
A
Advertising Samples and Designs (for decorative steel and iron work) 40 1 Jan 2001
Advertising Signs:
     Billboards (hoarding) 20 1 Jan 2001
     Roller board (moving surface) 6 ⅔ 1 Jan 2001
     Solar powered (real estate signs) 13 ⅓ 1 Jan 2001
Air-conditioning assets (excluding pipes, duct work and vents):
    Air handling units 20  *  1 Jul 2003
    Cooling towers 15  *  1 Jul 2003
    Condensing sets 15  *  1 Jul 2003
    Chillers:
        Absorption 25  *  1 Jul 2003
        Centrifugal 20  *  1 Jul 2003
        Volumetrics (including reciprocating, rotary, screw, scroll):
            Air-cooled 15  *  1 Jul 2003
            Water-cooled 20  *  1 Jul 2003
    Damper motors (including variable air volume box controller) 10  *  1 Jul 2003
    Fan coil units (connected to a condensing set) 15  *  1 Jul 2003
    Humidifiers (steam generator) 10  *  1 Jul 2003
    Mini split system up to 20KW (including ceiling, floor and high wall split system) 10  *  1 Jul 2003
    Packaged air conditioning units 15  *  1 Jul 2003
    Pumps 20  *  1 Jul 2003
    Room units 10  *  1 Jul 2003
Aircraft:
    Aeroplane:
        General Use 20  * # 1 Jul 2002
        Used predominantly for agricultural spraying or agricultural dusting 10  * # 1 Jul 2002
    Gliders/sailplanes 10 1 Jan 2001
    Helicopter:
        General Use 20  * # 1 Jul 2002
        Used predominantly for mustering, agricultural spraying or agricultural dusting 10  * # 1 Jul 2002
    Hot air balloons:
        Envelope and cane basket 3 1 Jan 2001
        Associated equipment (inflator fan, burner unit, fuel cylinders) 10 1 Jan 2001
Amenities Provided For Employees (sanitary ware, etc., forming part of toilet accommodation or washing facilities) 20 1 Jan 2001
Art Works 100 1 Jan 2001
Automatic Teller Machine 8  *  1 Jul 2001
 
B
Battery Chargers 20 1 Jan 2001
Batteries (Storage) 13 ⅓ 1 Jan 2001
Bicycles 10 1 Jan 2001
Binoculars 10 1 Jan 2001
Boilers 20   1 Jul 2005
Boiler pumps 5 * 1 Jul 2005
Boom Gates 10 1 Jan 2001
Bores 13 ⅓ 1 Jan 2001
Boring Drill (rotary mole, underground) 3 ⅓ 1 Jan 2001
Boring Plant 10 1 Jan 2001
Bottle Washing Machine 10 1 Jan 2001
Bowser Machines (including self service) 10 1 Jan 2001
Bowser Tanks (underground) 13 ⅓ 1 Jan 2001
Building maintenance units 35 * 1 Jul 2005
Buildings:
    To the extent that they form an integral part of plant and machinery:
         Brick, stone or concrete structures 100 1 Jan 2001
         Gantries 33 ⅓ 1 Jan 2001
         Other structures 33 ⅓ 1 Jan 2001
    Freezing Works: 1 Jan 2001
        Brick, stone or concrete structure 100 1 Jan 2001
        Wholly wooden structure 20 1 Jan 2001
    Primary Production, Forestry and Pearling Industries:
        Non-residential:
            With brick, stone or concrete walls 50 1 Jan 2001
            With wood and/or iron walls 33 1 Jan 2001
Bulk Liquid Bags 3 1 Jan 2001
Bundy Machines 13 ⅓ 1 Jan 2001
 
C
Cables and Wires
     Overhead:
         Bare 50 1 Jan 2001
         Insulated 20 1 Jan 2001
     Underground 50 1 Jan 2001
Cameras:
    Generally (including lenses, electronic flash units, enlargers, etc.) 10 1 Jan 2001
    Used for street photography 4 1 Jan 2001
Caravans:
     Generally 6 ⅔ 1 Jan 2001
    Used only within the confines of a caravan park 10 1 Jan 2001
Car Parking (hydraulic elevated platforms and hoists including control equipment) 10 1 Jan 2001
Carpets:
    in commercial office buildings 8 * 1 Jul 2005
     In ten-pin bowling centres 4 1 Jan 2001
Casks:
    Stainless steel 10 1 Jan 2001
    Other 13 ⅓ 1 Jan 2001
Chimney Stacks and Flues (concrete stacks in heavy industry qualifying as 'plant') 50 1 Jan 2001
Compressors
    Air and oxygen 20 1 Jan 2001
    Ammonia:
        Horizontal 20 1 Jan 2001
        Vertical 13 ⅓ 1 Jan 2001
Computers:
    Generally 4  *  1 Jan 2001
    Free access floors in computer rooms 50 1 Jan 2001
    Laptops 3  *  1 Jan 2001
Concrete Mixers 10 1 Jan 2001
Concrete Transit Mixers (mixing bowl, separate motor and drive mechanism) 6 ⅔ 1 Jan 2001
Containers (metal, for liquefied petroleum gas) 13 ⅓ 1 Jan 2001
Cranes:
    Electrical or otherwise 20 1 Jan 2001
    Gantries 33 ⅓ 1 Jan 2001
Crates 4 1 Jan 2001
Curing Barns (galvanised steel and marine ply) 13 ⅓ 1 Jan 2001
Curtains and Drapes 6  *  1 Jul 2004
 
D
Dams (not being earth tanks) 40 1 Jan 2001
Delivery tube system (air pressure) 10 1 Jan 2001
Docks (floating) 20 1 Jan 2001
Door control and motor drive system for automatic sliding doors (incorporating chains, controls, motors and sensors, excluding doors) 15 * 1 Jul 2005
Dozers/Front End Loaders 9  *  1 Jul 2002
Dredges 20  *  1 Jan 2003
Drink dispensing machines 10 * 1 Jul 2005
 
E
Elevated work platforms:      
    Boom (including knuckle and telescopic) 15  *  1 Jan 2006
    Personal 10  *  1 Jan 2006
    Scissor 10  *  1 Jan 2006
Engineering Works Machinery Installed 20 1 Jan 2001
Engines 20 1 Jan 2001
Escalators (machinery and their moving parts) 20  *  1 Jan 2003
 
F
Fences:
    Electric 20 1 Jan 2001
    Wire mesh (demountable used for partitioning purposes) 20 1 Jan 2001
Fire control and alarm assets:            
    Alarms:            
        Heat 6  *  1 Jul 2004
        Smoke 6  *  1 Jul 2004
    Detection and alarm systems:            
        Alarm bells 12  *  1 Jul 2004
        Detectors:            
            Aspirated smoke 12  *  1 Jul 2004
            Heat 20  *  1 Jul 2004
            Manual call point (addressable type only) 20  *  1 Jul 2004
            Multi type 20  *  1 Jul 2004
            Smoke 20  *  1 Jul 2004
        Fire indicator panels 12  *  1 Jul 2004
        Gas suppression cylinders 25  *  1 Jul 2004
    Emergency warning and intercommunication systems:            
        Master emergency control panels 12  *  1 Jul 2004
        Speakers 12  *  1 Jul 2004
        Strobe lights 12  *  1 Jul 2004
        Warden intercom phones 12  *  1 Jul 2004
    Extinguishers 15  *  1 Jul 2004
    Hoses and nozzles 10  *  1 Jul 2004
    Pumps (including diesel and electric) 25  *  1 Jul 2004
    Stair pressurisation assets:            
        A C variable speed drive 10  *  1 Jul 2004
        Pressurisation and extraction fans 25  *  1 Jul 2004
        Sensors 10  *  1 Jul 2004
Floor Coverings (linoleum and vinyl) 10 1 Jan 2001
Fogging Machines (insecticide) 8 1 Jan 2001
Forklifts 11  *  1 Jul 2002
Foundation of plant and machinery which forms an integral part of the plant and machinery 50 1 Jan 2001
Furniture, freestanding:  
    Bookcases:  
        Timber 15 * 1 Jul 2005
        Metal 20 * 1 Jul 2005
    Cabinets (including credenzas, cupboards, filing, mapping, mobile, stationery and storage type):
        Timber/laminated 15 * 1 Jul 2005
        Metal 20 * 1 Jul 2005
    Chairs 10 * 1 Jul 2005
    Desks 20 * 1 Jul 2005
    Mobile storage units (compactus type) 25 * 1 Jul 2005
    Reception (including lobby chairs, desks, lounges, sofas and tables) 10 * 1 Jul 2005
    Screens 20 * 1 Jul 2005
    Tables:  
        Boardroom 20 * 1 Jul 2005
        General 10 * 1 Jul 2005
    Workstations (including desks and partitions) 20 * 1 Jul 2005
 
G
Galvanising Plant 10 1 Jan 2002
Garbage Bins 6 ⅔ 1 Jan 2001
Gas Cylinders LPG 13 ⅓ 1 Jan 2001
Generators (excluding emergency or standby generators) 20 1 Jul 2005
Grinding Machine (surface) 10 1 Jan 2001
 
H
Hand Dryers (electrically operated) 10 1 Jan 2001
Heating Units (electronic) 10 1 Jan 2001
Hot water installations for commercial office buildings (excluding commercial boilers and piping) 15 * 1 Jul 2005
 
I
Ice-making Machinery:
     Condensers 13 ⅓ 1 Jan 2001
     Expansion pipes 40 1 Jan 2001
     General machinery 13 ⅓ 1 Jan 2001
     Ice moulds 5 1 Jan 2001
Incinerettes (gas or electrically fired) 20 1 Jan 2001
Industrial Sweeper 6 ⅔ 1 Jan 2001
Industrial Trailers (relocatable) 10 1 Jan 2001
Intercom System (pipe-in music system) 8 ⅓ 1 Jan 2001
 
J
Jet Ski 4 1 Jan 2001
Jetties (boat shed) 40 1 Jan 2001
Judges' Robes:
    Court dress for ceremonial occasions 5 1 Jan 2001
    Other robes 13 ⅓ 1 Jan 2001
 
K
Kilns:
    Brick 20 1 Jan 2001
    Charcoal burning 20 1 Jan 2001
    Rapid fire shuttle type (used in the manufacture of ceramic tiles) 13 ⅓ 1 Jan 2001
 
L
Laboratory Equipment 13 ⅓ 1 Jan 2001
Ladders (including stepladders, work platforms extension ladders, trestles and planks):      
    Aluminium 4  *  1 Jan 2006
    Fibreglass 4  *  1 Jan 2006
Laser Beam Construction Tools 10 1 Jan 2001
Laser Cutting Machine:
    Workhandler 10 1 Jan 2001
    Industrial laser 5 1 Jan 2001
    CNC control 5 1 Jan 2001
    Water chiller 5 1 Jan 2001
Laser Typesetting 5 1 Jan 2001
Lathes:
    Computer controlled 10 1 Jan 2001
    Engineering works (machinery installed) 20 1 Jan 2001
    Wood working plant 13 ⅓ 1 Jan 2001
Lawn Mower:
     Motor 6 ⅔ 1 Jan 2001
     Self propelled 5 1 Jan 2001
Lens (optical) 10 1 Jan 2001
Letter Boxes (aluminium, nylon, brass) 40 1 Jan 2001
Library (professional) 10 1 Jan 2001
Lift:
     Boom 3 1 Jan 2001
Lifts (including dumbwaiters, hydraulic lifts and traction lifts) 30  *  1 Jan 2003
Lighting Control System (microprocessor based) 5 1 Jan 2001
Lighting Plant (electric) 20 1 Jan 2001
Lighting System (fluorescent) 20 1 Jan 2001
Lightning arresters 50 1 Jan 2001
Livestock (working beasts, beasts of burden in business other than Primary Production and Camels) 10 1 Jan 2001
Loading bay assets:  
    Dock levellers 20 * 1 Jul 2005
    Pallet jacks and pallet trucks 10 * 1 Jul 2005
    Scissor lifts 15 * 1 Jul 2005
 
M
Mini Lab 10 1 Jan 2001
Mini-skid steer loaders (with a carrying capacity less than or equal to 1100 kg) 5  *  1 Jul 2005
Mini-skid steer loader attachments:      
     Others (including auger and bucket) 5  *  1 Jan 2004
     Stump grinders 2  *  1 Jan 2004
Mini Spot Console 10 1 Jan 2001
Modular Switching System 10 1 Jan 2001
Motor Graders 10  *  1 Jul 2002
Motor Vehicles, etc:
    Buses having a gross vehicle mass of more than 3.5 tonnes 15  *#  1 Jan 2005
    Cars (motor vehicles designed to carry a load of less than one tonne and fewer than 9 passengers):
        Generally 8  *  1 Jul 2006
        Hire and travellers' cars 5 1 Jan 2001
        Taxis 4 1 Jan 2001
    Light commercial vehicles designed to carry a load of one tonne or greater and having a gross vehicle mass of 3.5 tonnes or less 12  *#  1 Jan 2005
    Minibuses having a gross vehicle mass of 3.5 tonnes or less and designed to carry 9 or more passengers 12  *#  1 Jan 2005
    Motor cycles and scooters 6 ⅔ 1 Jan 2001
    Trailers having a gross vehicle mass greater than 4.5 tonnes 15  *#  1 Jan 2005
    Trailers having a gross vehicle mass of 4.5 tonnes or less 10   1 Jan 2005
    Trucks having a gross vehicle mass greater than 3.5 tonnes (excluding off highway trucks used in mining operations) 15  *#  1 Jan 2005
        For Garbage compactor trucks see Table A, Personal and Other Services (95110 to 97000), Waste disposal services (96340)  
Moving walks 20  *  1 Jan 2003
Musical Instruments, etc:
    Associated portable equipment (including amplifiers, microphones, speakers, mixers and music stands) 6 ⅔  *  1 Jan 2001
    Brass 10  *  1 Jan 2001
    Keyboard (Acoustic) 10  *  1 Jan 2001
    Keyboard (Electric) 5  *  1 Jan 2001
    Percussion 5  *  1 Jan 2001
    Stringed 10  *  1 Jan 2001
    Woodwind 10  *  1 Jan 2001
 
N
 
O
Office Machines and Equipment:
    Calculators 10 1 Jan 2001
    Dictaphones 10 1 Jan 2001
    Electronic whiteboard 6  *  1 Jan 2001
    Enveloping machine 6  *  1 Jan 2001
    Facsimile machine 5  *  1 Jan 2001
    Letter Inserter (automatic) 10 1 Jan 2001
    Mailing machine 5  *  1 Jan 2001
    Multi function machine (includes fax, copy, print and scan function) 5  *  1 Jan 2001
    Photo copying machines 5  *  1 Jan 2001
    Shredders 15 * 1 Jul 2005
    Trolleys 15 * 1 Jul 2005
    Whiteboards 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Ovens:
     Microwave 6 ⅔ 1 Jan 2001
Oxygen Acetylene Plant 20 1 Jan 2001
 
P
Packing Machines 10 1 Jan 2001
Painting equipment (airless spray) 10 1 Jan 2001
Paint-tinting and Colour Blending Machines 5 1 Jan 2001
Pallets 5 1 Jan 2001
Parachute 3 1 Jan 2001
Partitions (demountable) 20 1 Jul 2005
Pentex Total Station 5 1 Jan 2001
Plants:
    Live (indoor) 5 1 Jan 2001
    Simulated 13 ⅓ 1 Jan 2001
Point of sale assets:  
    Cash registers, standalone type 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Cash transfer system assets, pneumatic type (including printercircuit board, transfer pipes and turbines) 10  *  1 Jul 2005
    Generally (including barcode scanners, cash drawers, dedicated computers, electronic funds transfer point of sale (EFTPOS) machines, keyboards, monitors, printers and terminals) 6 * 1 Jul 2005
    Weighing machines and scales (including weigh labelling machines) 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Poles:
    Steel (set in concrete) 40 1 Jan 2001
    Wooden:
        Set in concrete 20 1 Jan 2001
        Not set in concrete 10 1 Jan 2001
Portable Toilet 10 1 Jan 2001
Powder Coating Machine 6 ⅔ 1 Jan 2001
Power supply assets, emergency or standby:  
    Generator assets:
        Acoustic hoods and canopies 20 * 1 Jul 2005
        Generators (incorporating attached engine management and generator monitoring instruments) 25 * 1 Jul 2005
        Power management units 15 * 1 Jul 2005
    Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system:
        Line interactive types 5 * 1 Jul 2005
        On line double conversion types 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Power Tools (hand operated) 5 1 Jan 2001
Power Transformers 45  *  1 Jan 2002
Projectors 10 1 Jan 2001
Public address and paging system assets (including amplifiers, audio speakers and microphones) 12 * 1 Jul 2005
Pumps 20   1 Jan 2001
Punts 20 1 Jan 2001
 
R
Racks 10 1 Jan 2001
Radio Sets:
    Generally 10 1 Jan 2001
    Two-way radios and transceivers 6 ⅔ 1 Jan 2001
Refrigeration assets:
    Generally (including blast chillers, condensers, evaporators, refrigeration cabinets, standalone freezers and standalone refrigerators) 10 1 Jul 2005
    Ice making machines 8 1 Jul 2005
    Insulation panels used in cool or freezer rooms 40 1 Jul 2005
Regeneration (acid) Unit 10 1 Jan 2001
Robots (industrial) 10 1 Jan 2001
 
S
Saddlery and Harness 10 1 Jan 2001
Sale Yards (stock and station agents) 20 1 Jan 2001
Sand/Coating System 10 1 Jan 2001
Sauna and Spa (prefabricated type) 13 ⅓ 1 Jan 2001
Saws (chain) 3 1 Jan 2001
Scaffolding:      
    Aluminium 5  *  1 Jan 2006
    Fibreglass 5  *  1 Jan 2006
    Steel 15  *  1 Jan 2006
Scales (platform) 20 1 Jan 2001
Security Systems:
    Bullet resistant screens (not forming part of the building) 20 1 Jan 2001
    Burglar alarms 6 ⅔ 1 Jan 2001
    Camera scanning (of type used in large retail establishments) 6 ⅔ 1 Jan 2001
Sewing Machines 10 1 Jan 2001
Sheds:
    Portable (nomadic type industry) 10 1 Jan 2001
    Humidification 20 1 Jan 2001
Signage for business identification (including lighting for signs) 10 1 Jul 2005
Silos:      
    Bulk handling:      
        Ancillary mechanical equipment 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001
        Concrete construction 50  *  1 Jan 2004
        Galvanised construction 30  *  1 Jan 2004
        Steel construction 40  *  1 Jan 2004
Sonar Supersonic Equipment (similar to seismic equipment) 13 ⅓ 1 Jan 2001
Sound Processing System (electronic digital) 6 ⅔ 1 Jan 2001
Spa (fibreglass) 20 1 Jan 2001
Spectrometer (computerised x-ray system for mineral analysis) 10 1 Jan 2001
Spray Booth 6 ⅔ 1 Jan 2001
Standards:
     Iron or steel (including brackets, crossarms, etc) 40 1 Jan 2001
     Concrete, brick or stone 100 1 Jan 2001
Steam Cleaners 13 ⅓ 1 Jan 2001
Strapping Machines 10 1 Jan 2001
Strongrooms (demountable) and strongroom doors 100 1 Jan 2001
Stuffed Crocodiles 20 1 Jan 2001
Suitcase 10 1 Jan 2001
Swimming pool assets:            
    Chlorinators 12  *  1 Jul 2004
    Cleaning assets 7  *  1 Jul 2004
    Filtration assets (including pumps) 12  *  1 Jul 2004
    Heaters:            
        Electric 15  *  1 Jul 2004
        Gas 15  *  1 Jul 2004
        Solar 20  *  1 Jul 2004
    Swimming pools(used as plant in a business)::            
        Above-ground 10     1 Jul 2005
        Concrete 50     1 Jul 2005
        Fibreglass 20     1 Jul 2005
Switchboards 20 1 Jan 2001
Synthetic Lawn Surface 10 1 Jan 2001
Tanks:
    Galvanised Iron:
        Bore water 10 1 Jan 2001
        Rain water 20 1 Jan 2001
    Reinforced concrete or masonry 50 1 Jan 2001
    Underground 50 1 Jan 2001
Tank Stands:
    Brick, stone or concrete 50 1 Jan 2001
    Wood and/or iron 33 ⅓ 1 Jan 2001
Tape Recorders 10 1 Jan 2001
Tarpaulins (canvas or plastic) 6 ⅔ 1 Jan 2001
Telephone Installations:
    Answering machines 6 ⅔ 1 Jan 2001
    Car phone 6 ⅔ 1 Jan 2001
    Cellular mobile 6 ⅔ 1 Jan 2001
    Complete telephone system (comprising switchboards, instruments, cables etc) 20 1 Jan 2001
        PABX computerised assets 10  *  1 Jan 2005
    Public telephones 10 1 Jan 2001
    Reservation system (data print) 20 1 Jan 2001
    Telephone hand sets 10 * 1 Jul 2005
Television Receivers:
    Generally 10 1 Jan 2001
    Used for hire 6 ⅔ 1 Jan 2001
Ticket Issuing Machines (public transport) 13 ⅓ 1 Jan 2001
Tools (loose) 5 1 Jan 2001
Tractors 6 ⅔ 1 Jan 2001
Transport Cases (steel) 10 1 Jan 2001
Turnstiles 20 1 Jan 2001
 
V
Vacuum Cleaners (electric) 10 1 Jan 2001
Vending Machine 5  *  1 Jul 2001
Ventilation fans (excluding ducting, piping and vents) 20   1 Jan 2005
W
Washing Machines 6 ⅔ 1 Jan 2001
Waste Storage and Disposal Bins (industrial) 10 1 Jan 2001
Weighbridges 25 1 Jan 2001
Weighing Machines 10 1 Jan 2001
Welding Plant:
     Automatic (used at sea on construction of a submarine pipeline) 10 1 Jan 2001
     Generally 20 1 Jan 2001
Wells 40 1 Jan 2001
Wheelbarrows 10 1 Jan 2001
Windmills 20 1 Jan 2001
Window blinds used in commercial buildings 20 * 1 Jul 2005
Wrapping Machines 10 1 Jan 2001
 
X
 
Y
 
Z

Not previously issued as a draft

References

ATO references:
NO 99/13202-7; T2000/20567; 2003/11601; 2004/17815; 2005/6504; 2005/18073

ISSN: 1039-0731

Related Rulings/Determinations:

IT 2685
TR 2000/18

Subject References:
depreciation
depreciation rates
effective life

Legislative References:
ITAA 1997 Div 40
ITAA 1997 Subdiv 40-E
ITAA 1997 Subdiv 40-F
ITAA 1997 40-70(1)
ITAA 1997 40-75(1)
ITAA 1997 40-95
ITAA 1997 40-100
ITAA 1997 40-100(4)
ITAA 1997 40-100(4)(b)
ITAA 1997 40-105(1)
ITAA 1997 40-110
ITAA 1997 Div 42
ITAA 1997 Subdiv 42-M
ITAA 1997 Div 43
TAA 1953

TR 2006/5 history
  Date: Version: Change:
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