2021 Budget Instant Asset Write Off
The instant asset write off has an asset threshold amount currently 150 000 while full expensing doesn t.
2021 budget instant asset write off. Businesses that hold assets eligible for the enhanced 150 000 instant asset write off will have an extra six months until 30 june 2021 to first use or install those assets. The extension for these businesses will end on june 30 2021. Together the measures will cost the budget 26 7 billion.
Enhancements to the instant asset write off scheme the instant asset write off scheme has been further enhanced until the end of the 2021 2022 financial year. From 1 january 2021 the instant asset write off will only be available for small businesses with an aggregated turnover of less than 10 million and the threshold will be 1 000. Around 3 5 million businesses with aggregated annual turnover of less than 500 million are eligible to access the 150 000 instant asset write off.
Also the instant asset write off isn t available to businesses with an aggregated turnover of 500 million or more while the recent budget proposal has a 5 billion turnover threshold. An instant asset write off allows small businesses with an annual turnover of less than 500 million to claim immediate deductions up to an amount of 150 000 this will reduce to 1 000 from 1 january 2021 for new or second hand plant and equipment asset purchases such as vehicles tools and office equipment. The government has also added another six months to the instant asset write off scheme to allow businesses that already hold eligible assets to first use or install those assets.
The existing enhanced instant asset write off incentive has been extended for 6 months to 30 june 2021 and is available for assets first used or installed ready for use before that date. 12 march 2020 to 31 december 2020 the threshold is 150 000. Businesses with annual turnover between 50 million and 500 million can still deduct the full cost of eligible second hand assets costing less than 150 000 that are purchased by december 31 this year.
Businesses that hold assets eligible for the enhanced 150 000 instant asset write off will have an extra six months until 30 june 2021. Businesses with an annual turnover of up to 5 billion will be able to write off the entire cost of any business asset purchased as a tax deduction after 6 october 2020. There was an increase in the threshold from 30 000 to 150 000 when the covid measures started.