Effective Life 2000/1

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Commonwealth of Australia

Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

I, DAVID EDWARD BUTLER, First Assistant Commissioner, Business Tax Reform, delegate of the Commissioner, make this Determination under subsection 42-110(1) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997.

1 Name of Determination

This Determination is the Income Tax (Effective Life of Plant) Determination 2000.

2 Commencement

This Determination commences on 1 January 2001.

3 Revocation

All previous determinations of the effective life of plant for the purposes of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 are revoked.

4 Effective life of plant

(1)

For subsection 42-110 (1) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997, the effective life of plant is specified in Tables A and B.

(2)

If the entity depreciating plant is using the plant in an industry specified in Table A, Tables A and B are to be used as follows:

(a)

if the plant corresponds exactly to a description in Table A for the industry in which the plant is used, its effective life is the life specified for that plant;

(b)

if the plant:

(i)

does not correspond exactly to a description in Table A for the industry in which the plant is used; but

(ii)

satisfies the general description of plant used in the functional process of that industry -

its effective life is the life specified in Table A for that class of plant;

(c)

if:

(i)

paragraphs (a) and (b) do not apply to the plant; and

(ii)

the plant corresponds to a description in Table B -

its effective life is the life specified with that description.

Note

Table A is intended to describe plant:

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that is peculiar to a particular industry; or

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for which a particular effective life is appropriate because of the way in which a particular industry uses the plant.

The industry headings in Table A have, where possible, been drawn from the classification subject categories in the Australian New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC) Codes.

(3)

If:

(a)

the entity depreciating plant is not using the plant in an industry specified in Table A; and

(b)

the plant corresponds to a description in Table B -

the effective life of the plant is the life specified with that description.

Note

If Tables A and B are not used, or cannot be used because:

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the plant is not used in an industry specified in Table A; and

•

Table B has no description that corresponds to the plant -

the way to work out the effective life of the plant is explained in section 42-105 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997.

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21 December 2000

DAVID EDWARD BUTLER,
First Assistant Commissioner, Business Tax Reform,
Delegate of the Commissioner

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