Effective Life Of Solar Panels Ato

While i m confident that a good quality well installed solar system will last over 25 years the ato thinks that any given solar system s effective life will only be around 20 years.

Effective life of solar panels ato.

How the ato determines the effective lives of assets. As such they are depreciable under the capital allowances provisions of the tax act. Good morning i have an investment property and i have replaced the inverter of the solar panels. Still that s a long time you can claim depreciation and offset the tax payable on the additional income you can charge from putting a system on a roof.

I would like to depreciate this item but this asset is not listed on the ato depreciating items. For the most up to data effective lives go to the ato effective lives section under the depreciation schedules menu dropdown. The ato determines effective lives through an effective life review process. The following is a list of effective life reviews that have been completed including the date of effect of the new effective lives.

Recalculating a depreciating asset s effective life. You may have to recalculate the effective life if you make an improvement to an asset that increases its cost by 10 or more in a year. In its latest determination the ato has ascribed 20 years as the effective life of solar panels and therefore they are depreciable over this time period. The effective life legsilation has been updated.

Below are the ato effective lives for residential property as at the 1st of july 2017 from tr 2017 2.