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Industrial Building Allowance

A building is an industrial building if it is used for the purposes of a business and:

  1. it is used as a factory 
  2. it is used as a dock, wharf, jetty or other similar building
  3. it is used as a warehouse and the business consists or mainly consists of the hire of storage space to the public
  4. the business is that of a water or electricity undertaking supplying water or electricity for consumption by the public or a telecommunication undertaking providing telecommunication services to the public
  5. it is used in connection with the working of a farm and the business consists or mainly consists of the working of the farm, with or without other farms, or
  6. it is used in connection with the working of a mine and the business consists or mainly consists of the working of a mine, with or without other mines.
No.Types of industrial building (IB)Relevantparagraph in Schedule 3of the ITA%
InitialAllowancesAnnual Allowances
1.Factory, dock, wharf, jetty, warehouse, buildings for the supply of water, electricity, and telecommunication, buildings in a farm or mine.63103
2.Buildings included in the definition of ‘factory’.64(a)
3.Building used for storage which is within the same curtilage as a factory.64(b)
4.Building for the facility of employees such as canteen, restroom, recreation room, lavatory, bathhouse, bathroom and washroom (provided there is an IB in use in the business).65(1)
5.Building for the welfare of workers and living accomodation for employees working in a farm.65(2)
6.Licensed private hospital, maternity home and nursing home.37A
7.Building used for research.37B
8.Warehouse.37C10
9.Building used for an approved service project.37E103
10.Hotel.37F
11.Airport.37G
12.Motor racing circuit.37H
13.Building used as living accomodation for employees (provided there is an IB in use in the business).42(1)403
14.Building used as living accommodation for employees, provided by a person carrying on a business of manufacturing, hotel or tourism or an approved services project under Schedule 7B of the ITA.42A(1)10
15.Child care centre provided by an employer.42A(2)
16.Buildings for schools or educational institutions.42B
17.Buildings for industrial, technical or vocational training.42C
18.Public Roads.67A106
19.Buildings on a build-lease-transfer basis.67B