Effective Life 2005/2


Commonwealth of Australia

This Legislative Instrument has been repealed by Treasury (Spent and Redundant Instruments) Repeal Regulation 2013.

Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

I, BRUCE WILLIAM QUIGLEY, Deputy Chief Tax Counsel, make this Determination under subsection 40-100(1) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997.

1 Name of Determination

This Determination is the Income Tax (Effective Life of Depreciating Assets) Amendment Determination 2005 (No. 2).

2 Commencement

This Determination commences on 1 January 2006.

3 Amendment of Income Tax (Effective Life of Depreciating Assets) Determination 2001

Schedule 1 amends the Income Tax (Effective Life of Depreciating Assets) Determination 2001.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(section 3)

[1] Table A, industry category CONSTRUCTION (41111 to 42590)

Omit

Linemarkers 11  *  1 Jul 2002

[2] Table A, industry category CONSTRUCTION (41111 to 42590)

After

Track loaders 9  *  1 Jul 2002

Insert

Traffic management assets (use the relevant lives given under Machinery and equipment hiring and leasing (77410 to 77430), whether or not the assets are in fact hired or leased)      

[3] Table A, industry category CULTURAL AND RECREATIONAL SERVICES (91110 to 93302), sub-category Film, video and radio services (91110 to 91210)

Omit the sub-category, substitute the following sub-categories in their appropriate numerical positions within the category

Film and video production
(91110)
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 recorders 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
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
 
Cinema operation
(91130)
Audio amplification and processing equipment (including component rack systems) 10  *  1 Jan 2001
Carpets 5  *  1 Jan 2001
Cinema and sound processor 8  *  1 Jan 2001
Cinema automation system 10  *  1 Jan 2001
Cinema seating (including 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 (including 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
    Projection port 20  *  1 Jan 2001
    Projector heat extraction system 10  *  1 Jan 2001
    Slide projector 10  *  1 Jan 2001
Screen installations (includes screens, framing and masking equipment) 8  *  1 Jan 2001
 
Radio services
(91210)
Radio broadcasting equipment:      
    Computer automated 10   1 Jan 2001
    General plant 6 ⅔   1 Jan 2001
    Steel masts 40   1 Jan 2001
 
Music and theatre productions operation
(92412)
Theatre equipment:      
    Accessories (theatrical wigs, costumes, etc) 5   1 Jan 2001

[4] Table A, industry category CULTURAL AND RECREATIONAL SERVICES (91110 to 93302), heading to the sub-category Libraries, museums, the arts and parks and gardens (92100 to 92590)

After

Omit " 92590 ", substitute " 92390 ".

[5] Table A, industry category MANUFACTURING (21110 to 29490), sub-category Printing, publishing and recorded media (24110 to 24309)

Omit the sub-category, substitute the following sub-categories in their appropriate numerical positions within the category

Paper stationery manufacturing (24110)
Stationers' manufacturing plant 13 ⅓ 1 Jan 2001
 
Printing
(24120)
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
    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 Services to Printing (24130)      
    Pre-press trade services assets - see Table A Services to Printing (24130)      
    Quality control assets (including densitometers, plate readers and spectrophotometers) 5  *  1 Jan 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 Jan 2006
            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
Flexographic printing assets:      
    Printing machines incorporating electronic memory units 10   1 Jan 2001
 
Services to printing
(24130)
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
 
Newspaper printing or publishing
(24210)
Newspaper wrapping machines 10   1 Jan 2001
Offset printers 10   1 Jan 2001

[6] Table A, industry category MANUFACTURING (21110 to 29490), sub-category Alumina production (27210)

Omit

            Brick or concrete structure 100   1 Jan 2001
            Wooden structure 20   1 Jan 2001

[7] Table A, industry category MINING (11010 to 15200), entry relating to Infrastructure support assets (27210)

Omit

    Pipes and pipelines (including valves and fittings) 25  *  1 Jul 2003

Substitute

    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

[8] Table A, industry category MINING (11010 to 15200), sub-category Coal mining (11010 to 11020), entry relating to Infrastructure support assets

Omit

    Pipes and pipelines 25  *  1 Jul 2003

Substitute

    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

[9] Table A, industry category MINING (11010 to 15200), after sub-category Oil and gas extraction (12000)

Insert

Iron ore mining
(13110)
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

[10] Table A, industry category MINING (11010 to 15200), sub-category Gold ore mining (13140), entry relating to Gold ore processing assets

Omit

    Slurry pipelines 15  *  1 Jul 2004

[11] Table A, industry category MINING (11010 to 15200), sub-category Mineral sand mining (13150), entry relating to Support assets

Omit

    Pipelines, piping and pumps 20  *  1 Jan 2003

Substitute

    Pipes and pipelines (including valves and fittings):      
        Generally 20  *  1 Jan 2003
        lurry pipework within processing facility (including slurry pipe to thickener) 10  *  1 Jan 2006
    Pumps 20  *  1 Jan 2003

[12] Table A, industry category PERSONAL AND OTHER SERVICES (95110 to 97000), sub-category Personal and other goods hiring (95100 to 95190)

Omit the sub-category, substitute

Personal and household goods hiring
(95110 to 95190)
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

[13] Table A, industry category PROPERTY AND BUSINESS SERVICES (77110 to 78690), sub-category Machinery and equipment hiring and leasing (77410 to 77430)

After the entry relating to Power tools, insert

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
    Static signage (including safety cones, barricades, warning signs and bollards) 3  *  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

[14] Table B, items beginning with E

Before

Engines 20   1 Jan 2001

Insert

Elevated work platforms:      
    Boom (including knuckle and telescopic) 15  *  1 Jan 2006
    Personal 10  *  1 Jan 2006
    Scissor 10  *  1 Jan 2006

[15] Table B, items beginning with L

After

Laboratory equipment 13 ⅓   1 Jan 2001

Insert

Ladders (including stepladders, work platforms extension ladders, trestles and planks):      
    Aluminium 4  *  1 Jan 2006
    Fibreglass 4  *  1 Jan 2006

[16] Table B, items beginning with L

Omit

Lift:      
    Boom 3   1 Jan 2001

Substitute

Lifts (elevated work platforms):      
    Boom (including knuckle and telescopic) 15  *  1 Jan 2006
    Personal 10  *  1 Jan 2006
    Scissor 10  *  1 Jan 2006

[17] Table B, items beginning with M

Omit

Motor vehicles, etc:      
    Cars (motor vehicles designed to carry a load of less than one tonne or fewer than 9 passengers):      
        Generally 8  *  1 Jul 2002
        Hire and travellers' cars 5   1 Jan 2001
        Taxis 4   1 Jan 2001

Substitute

Motor vehicles, etc:      
    Cars (motor vehicles designed to carry a load of less than one tonne and fewer than 9 passengers):      
        Generally 8  *  1 Jan 2006
        Hire and travellers' cars 5   1 Jan 2001
        Taxis 4   1 Jan 2001

[18] Table B, items beginning with P, items grouped under the heading 'Point of sale assets:'

Omit

Cash transfer system assets, pneumatic type (including circuit boards, printers, transfer pipes and turbines) 10  *  1 Jul 2005

Substitute

Cash transfer system assets, pneumatic type (including printer circuit board, transfer pipes and turbines) 10  *  1 Jul 2005

[19] Table B, Table B, items beginning with S

Omit

Scaffolding 10   1 Jan 2001

Substitute

Scaffolding:      
    Aluminium 5  *  1 Jan 2006
    Fibreglass 5  *  1 Jan 2006
    Steel 15  *  1 Jan 2006



7 December 2005

BRUCE WILLIAM QUIGLEY,

Deputy Chief Tax Counsel


Registration Number: F2005L04024

Registration Date: 13 December 2005

Related Explanatory Statements:

Effective Life 2005/2 - Explanatory statement