Tax Depreciation Rates

Tax Depreciation rates applicable for the accounting year ending March 31, 1993

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   Block of assets                               Depreciation Rates (%)
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Building
 Dwelling units with plinth area not exceeding
  80 square metres and hotels                                20
 Mainly residential                                           5
 Others                                                      10
 Purely temporary structures                                100

Machinery and Equipment
 General                                                     25
 Special:
  Motor cars, other than those used in
   business of hire, acquired after April 1, 1990            20

  Airplans, air engines, specified moulds; air
   and water pollution control equipment; solid
   waste control equiipment; motor buses, motor
   trucks; motor taxies used in a business of hire           40

 Specified energy-saving/renewable energy devices;
  specified machinery used in mines and qarries,
  mineral oil concerns, salt and sugar works, iron
  and steel industries, glassworks, etc.                    100

Furniture and Fittings
 General                                                     10
 Special furniture and fittings in hotels,
  cinemas, etc.                                              15

Ships
 Oceangoing ships, including dredgers, etc.
  and speedboats                                             20
 Inland water vessels                                        10
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