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Te kerēme hekenga wāriu Claiming depreciation

Income tax for businesses and organisations
Income tax for businesses and organisations
  • Types of business expenses
    • Depreciation
      • Claiming depreciation
        • Depreciation rate finder and calculator
        • Work out straight-line depreciation
        • Work out diminishing value depreciation
      • Managing depreciation
      • Capital contributions

Income tax Dates

  • MAR 28
    AIM instalments are due if you file GST monthly and have a March balance date.
  • MAR 31
    Final date for ratio option provisional tax applications.
  • APR 7
    End-of-year income tax and Working for Families bills are due if you have an extension of time to file your income tax return.
  • All Income tax dates

What assets you can claim

You must claim depreciation on assets kept in your business for longer than a year. These are capital expenses or capital (fixed) assets.

Some assets do not depreciate, including:

  • land
  • trading stock
  • franchise fees
  • intangible assets, like goodwill.
 
Income year Low value assets
Up to 16 March 2020 Customers could claim an immediate tax deduction for assets costing less than $500,
instead of claiming depreciation over the following years.
17 March 2020 to 16 March 2021 Threshold increases temporarily to $5,000
17 March 2021 onwards Threshold reset to $1,000

Pooling assets

You can group low value assets together and depreciate as a pool. Once you include assets in a pool, you cannot take them out. Pooled assets:

  • depreciate using the diminishing value method
  • must use the lowest depreciation rate from assets in the pool
  • cannot be buildings.

GST and depreciation

If you're registered for GST, you claim depreciation on the price of the asset less the GST charged.

If you are not registered for GST, you claim depreciation on the total price of the asset, including GST.

Depreciation rates

Assets are depreciated at different rates. We set depreciation rates based on the cost and useful life of assets.

Depreciation on buildings

Depreciation was allowed on most buildings until 2010 and for the 2012 – 2020 income years the depreciation rate for buildings with an estimated life of more than 50 years was set at zero.

Changes in 2020 reintroduce depreciation deductions for non-residential buildings for the 2021 and subsequent income years.

Interpretation Statement (IS) 22/04 provides guidance to building owners on when they can claim depreciation on buildings. It considers the meaning of 'building' for depreciation purposes and the distinction between residential and non-residential buildings.

Interpretation Statement (IS) 22/04 - Claiming depreciation on buildings (Tax Technical)

Depreciation methods

There are 2 methods for depreciation. The total depreciation you can claim over an asset’s life is the same for both methods.

The diminishing value method (DV)

This method depreciates at a high rate for the start of an asset's life and has a reducing rate each year.

Work out diminishing value depreciation

The straight line method (SL)

This method depreciates at the same rate each year.

Work out straight line depreciation

You do not have to use the same method for all your assets. You can change methods at the end of each year. If you change methods, use the adjusted tax value to work out new depreciation.

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Depreciation rate finder and calculator

Use this tool to find the depreciation rate and calculate depreciation for a business asset.

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Use the IR260A to apply for a provisional depreciation rate and the IR260B to apply for a special depreciation rate. The rates to calculate depreciation for assets acquired since 1996 are available in our booklet General depreciation rates (IR265).

Application for a provisional depreciation rate IR260A 2022 (PDF 130KB) Download form
Application for a special depreciation rate IR260B 2022 (PDF 163KB) Download form
Application for a higher maximum pooling value IR719 2022 (PDF 145KB) Download form

Pages in this section
  • Depreciation rate finder and calculator Use this tool to find the depreciation rate and calculate depreciation for a business asset.
  • Work out straight-line depreciation Depreciate assets every year by the same amount using straight-line depreciation.
  • Work out diminishing value depreciation

    Depreciate using a rate of an asset's adjusted tax value each year.

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