Low-value pooling
You can allocate low-cost assets and low-value assets relating to your rental activity to a low-value pool. A low-cost asset is a depreciating asset whose cost is less than $1,000 (after GST credits or adjustments) as at the end of the income year in which you start to use it, or have it installed ready for use, for a taxable purpose.
A low-value asset is a depreciating asset that is not a low-cost asset and:
that has an opening adjustable value for the current year of less than $1,000, and
for which you have worked out any available deductions for decline in value under the diminishing value method.
Your share of interest is less than $1000:
If you hold an asset jointly with someone and the cost of your interest in the asset or the opening adjustable value of your interest is less than $1,000, you can allocate your interest in the asset to your low-value pool.
Note: Once you choose to create a low-value pool and allocate a low-cost asset to it, you must pool all other low-cost assets you start to hold in that income year and in later income years. However, this rule does not apply to low-value assets. You can decide whether to allocate low-value assets to the pool on an asset-by-asset basis.
Once you have allocated an asset to the pool, it remains in the pool.
Once an asset is allocated to a low-value pool, only one annual calculation for the decline in value for all of the depreciating assets in the pool is required.
For the first year, its decline in value at a rate of 18.75%, or half the pool rate. Halving the rate recognises that assets may be allocated to the pool throughout the income year and eliminates the need to make separate calculations for each asset based on the date it was allocated to the pool.
The deduction for the decline in value of depreciating assets in a low-value pool using a diminishing value rate of 37.5%.
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