Schedule-15 - DEPRECIATION - Direct Taxes Code, 2010

THE FIFTEENTH SCHEDULE [See section 38 (1), (4), (a), 39(1) (b), 40 (1) (b), 42 (1)] DEPRECIATION 1. The allowance under section 37 in respect of depreciation of any block of assets, specified in column (3) of the Table given below, shall be calculated at the percentages, specified in corresponding entry in column (4) of the said Table, on the adjusted value or written down value of such block of assets, as the case may be, as are used for the purposes of the business of the assessee at any time during the financial year. TABLE RATES AT WHICH DEPRECIATION IS ADMISSIBLE Serial Number Class of assets Block of assets Depreciation number allowance as percentage of adjusted value or of written down value of block of assets. (1) (2) (3) (4) 1. Building (1) Buildings which are used mainly for residential purposes. (2) Buildings which are purely temporary erections such as wooden structures. (3) Buildings used as, or for-— (i) hotel or boarding house, ii) railway station, (iii) airport, (iv) sea port, (v) bus terminal (vi) hospital, or (vii) convention centre (4) Any other building. 5 100 15 10 2. Furniture and fittings Furniture and fittings including electrical fittings. 10 3. Vehicles (1) Motor buses, motor lorries and motor cars, used in a business of running them on hire. (2) Any other motor bus, motor lorry or motor car. 30 15 4. Aeroplanes Aeroplanes including aeroengines. 40 5. Rails (1) Engines, coaches and wagons. (2) Rolling stock. 40 15 6. Ships (1) Ocean-going vessels. (2) Speed boats ordinarily operating on inland waters. (3) Any other vessel ordinarily operating on inland waters. 10 10 10 7. Books (1) Annual publications used for carrying on a profession. (2) Any other book used for carrying on a profession. (3) Book used for carrying on a business of running lending libraries . (4) Any other book. 100 60 100 25 8. Machinery and Plant (1) Moulds used in rubber and plastic goods factories. (2) Air pollution control equipment. (3) Water pollution control equipment. (4) Solid waste control equipment. (5) Life saving medical equipment. (6) Containers made of glass, or plastic, used as refills. (7) Computers including computer software. (8) Energy saving devices. (9) Renewable energy devices. (10) Machinery and plant, used in semiconductor industry. (11) Wooden parts used in artificial silk manufacturing machinery. (12) Bulbs of studio lights used for cinematograph films. (13) Wooden match frames used in match factories. (14) Tubs, winding ropes, haulage ropes, sand stowing pipes and safety lamps used in mines and quarries. (15) Salt pans, reservoirs and condensers, made of earthy, sandy or clayey material or any other similar material, used in salt works. (16) Rollers used in flour mills or sugar works. (17) Rolling mill rolls used in iron and steel industry. (18) Gas cylinders including valves and regulators. (19) Glass manufacturing concerns direct fire glass melting furnaces. (20) Returnable packages used in field operations (above ground) distribution by petroleum or natural gas concerns. (21) Plant used in field operations (below ground) by petroleum or natural gas concerns. (22) Machinery and plant acquired and installed in a water supply project or water treatment system and which is put to use for the pupose of business of providing infrastructure facility. (23) Any other machinery or plant. 30 100 100 100 40 50 60 80 80 30 100 100 100 100 100 80 80 60 60 60 60 100 15 9. Scientific research assets All assets, other than land, used for scientific research. 100 10 Family planning asset All assets used by a company for the purpose of promoting family planning. 25 11. Animals Animals 0 12. Intangible assets (1) Any right, by way of licence or franchise, to operate a business or to use a know-how, patent, copyright, trademark or any other business or commercial right of similar nature. (2) Asset or project constructed, erected or set up by the assessee if,— (a) benefit or advantage arises to the assessee over a fixed period not exceeding ten years; and (b) asset is not owned by the assessee. (3) Asset or project constructed, erected or set up by the assessee if,— (a) benefit or advantage arises to the assessee over a fixed period exceeding ten years;and (b) asset is not owned by the assessee. 25 20 15 2. No depreciation shall be allowed in respect of any machinery or plant, if the actual cost thereof is allowed as a deduction in one or more years. 3. The depreciation shall be one hundred per cent. of the adjusted written down value of the block of assets referred to in the class of assets at serial number 12 of the Table, if the adjusted value or written down value of the block of assets is one lakh rupees or less. 4. In respect of any structure, or work, by way of renovation or improvement in, or in relation to, a building used for the purposes of business of the person, the percentage to be applied shall be the percentage specified in any sub-item of the block of assets in serial number 1 of the said Table, as may be appropriate to the class of building in, or in relation to, which the renovation or improvement is effected. 5. In respect of any structure constructed, or work done, by way of extension of any building used for the purposes of business of the person, the percentage to be applied shall be the percentage specified in any sub-item of the block of assets in serial number 1 of the said Table above, as would be appropriate, as if the structure, or work, constituted a separate building. 6. In this Schedule— (a) "buildings" include roads, bridges, culverts, wells and tubewells; (b) "building mainly used for residential purpose" means a building where the built-up floor area thereof used for residential purposes is not less than sixty-six and two-third per cent. of its total built-up floor area and shall include any such building in the factory premises; (c) "water treatment system" includes water treatment system for desalination, demineralisation and purification of water as well as pipes needed for delivery from the source of supply of raw water to the plant and from the plant to the storage facility; (d) "electrical fittings" include electrical wiring, switches, sockets and other fittings and fans; (e) "computer software" means any computer programme recorded on any disc, tape, perforated media or other information storage device; (f) "speed boat" means a motor boat driven by a high speed internal combustion engine capable of propelling the boat at a speed exceeding 24 kilometers per hour in still water and so designed that when running at a speed, its bow will rise from the water; (g) "ocean-going ships" include dredgers, tugs, barges, survey launches, other similar ships used mainly for dredging purposes and fishing vessels with wooden hull; (h) "air pollution control equipment" means— (i) electrostatic precipitation systems; (ii) felt-filter systems; (iii) dust collector systems; (iv) scrubber-counter current, venture, packed bed, cyclonic scrubbers; and (v) ash handling system and evacuation system; (i) "water pollution control equipment" means— (i) mechanical screen systems; (ii) aerated detritus chambers (including air compressor); (iii) mechanically skimmed oil and grease removal systems; (iv) chemical feed systems and flash mixing equipment; (v) mechanical flocculators and mechanical reactors; (vi) diffused air, mechanically aerated activated sludge systems; (vii) aerated lagoon systems; (viii) biofilters; (ix) methane-recovery anaerobic digester systems; (x) air floatation systems; (xi) air, steam stripping systems; (xii) urea hydrolysis systems; (xiii) marine outfall systems; (xiv) centrifuge for dewatering sludge; (xv) rotating biological contractor or bio-disc; (xvi) ion exchange resin column; and (xvii) activated carbon column; (j) "Solidwaste control equipments" means— (i) caustic, lime, chrome, mineral, cryolite recovery systems; and (ii) solidwaste recycling and resource recovery systems; (k) "life saving medical equipment" means— (i) D.C1015205303540254550. defibrillators for internal use and pace makers; (ii) haemodialysors; (iii) heart lung machine; (iv) cobalt therapy unit; (v) colour doppler; (vi) SPECT gamma camera; (vii) vascular angiography system including digital substraction angiography; (viii) ventilator used with anaesthesia apparatus; (ix) magnetic resonance imaging system; (x) surgical laser; (xi) ventilators other than those used with anaesthesia; (xii) gamma knife; (xiii) bone marrow transplant equipment including silastic long standing intravenous catheters for chemotheraphy; (xiv) fibre optic endoscopes including, paediatric resectoscope/audit resectoscope, peritoneoscopes, arthoscope, microlaryngoscope, fibreoptic flexible nasal pharyngo bronchoscope, fibreoptic flexible laryngo bronchoscope, video laryngo bronchoscope and video oesophago gastroscope, stroboscope, fibreoptic flexible oesophago gastroscope; or (xv) laparoscope (single incision); (l) "energy saving device" means— (i) specialised boilers and furnaces, being— (A) lgnifluid/fluidized bed boilers; (B) flameless furnaces and continuous pusher type furnaces; (C) fluidized bed type heat treatment furnaces; or (D) high efficiency boilers (thermal efficiency higher than 75 per cent. in case of coal fired and 80 per cent. in case of oil/gas fired boilers); (ii) instrumentation and monitoring system for monitoring energy flows, being— (A) automatic electrical load monitoring systems; (B) digital heat loss meters; (C) micro-processor based control systems; (D) infra-red thermography; (E) meters for measuring heat losses, furnace oil flow, steam flow, electric energy and power factor meters; (F) maximum demand indicator and clamp on power meters; (G) exhaust gases analyzer; or (H) fuel oil pump test bench; (iii) waste heat recovery equipment, being— (A) economisers and feed water heaters; (B) recuperators and air pre-heaters; (C) heat pumps; or (D) thermal energy wheel for high and low temperature waste heat recovery; (iv) co-generation systems, being— (A) back pressure pass out, controlled extraction, extraction-cum-condensing turbines for co-generation along with pressure boilers; (B) vapour absorption refrigeration systems; (C) organic rankine cycle power systems; or (D) low inlet pressure small steam turbines; (v) electrical equipment, being— (A) shunt capacitors and synchronous condenser systems; (B) automatic power cut off devices (relays) mounted on individual motors; (C) automatic voltage controller; (D) power factor controller for AC motors; (E) solid state devices for controlling motor speeds; (F) thermally energy-efficient stenters (which require 800 or less kilocalories of heat to evaporate one kilogram of water); (G) series compensation equipment; (H) Flexible AC Transmission (FACT) devices - Thyristor controlled series compensation equipment; (I) time of Day (ToD) energy meters; (J) equipment to establish transmission highways for National Power Grid to facilitate transfer of surplus power of one region to the deficient region; (K) remote terminal units/intelligent electronic devices, computer hardware/ software, router/bridges, other required equipment and associated communication systems for supervisory control and data acquisition systems, energy management systems and distribution management systems for power transmission systems; or (L) special energy meters for Availability Based Tariff (ABT); (vi) burners, being — (A) 0 to 10 per cent. excess air burners; (B) emulsion burners; or (C) burners using air with high pre-heat temperature (above 300°C); and (vii) other energy saving device, being — (A) wet air oxidation equipment for recovery of chemicals and heat; (B) mechanical vapour recompressors; (C) thin film evaporators; (D) automatic micro-processor based load demand controllers; (E) coal based producer gas plants; (F) fluid drives and fluid couplings; (G) turbo charges/super-charges;or (H) sealed radiation sources for radiation processing plants; (m) "renewal energy device" means— (i) flat plate solar collectors; (ii) concentrating and pipe type solar collectors; (iii) solar cookers; (iv) solar water heaters and systems; (v) air/gas/fluid heating systems; (vi) solar crop driers and systems; (vii) solar refrigeration, cold storages and air-conditioning systems; (viii) solar steels and desalination systems; (ix) solar power generating systems; (x) solar pumps based on solar-thermal and solar-photovoltaic conversion; (xi) solar-photovoltaic modules and panels for water pumping and other applications; (xii) Wind mills and any specially designed devices which run on wind mills; (xiii) Any special devices including electric generators and pumps running on wind energy; (xiv) biogas-plant and biogas-engines; (xv) electrically operated vehicles including battery powered or fuel-cell powered vehicles; (xvi) agricultural and municipal waste conversion devices producing energy; (xvii) equipment for utilising ocean waste and thermal energy; or (xviii) machinery and plant used in the manufacture of any of the above sub-items; (n) "machinery and plant used in semi-conductor industry" means machinery and plant used in semi-conductor industry covering all integrated circuits (ICs) (excluding hybrid integrated circuits) ranging from small scale integration (SSI) to large scale integration/very large scale integration (LSI/VLSI) as also discrete semi-conductor devices such as diodes, transistors, thyristors, triacs, etc., other than clauses (h), (i), (j), (l) and (m) referred above.