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Equipment appraisals in Alaska for donations, lending, M&A, and financial reporting, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises industrial equipment, construction machinery, manufacturing assets, agricultural equipment, and fleet vehicles across Alaska, including Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, ALASKA COURTS, LENDERS, INSURERS, AND MORE.
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Owner & CEO
Joe founded AppraiseItNow to make a certified, USPAP-compliant appraisal as simple to order as anything else online. A former Bain & Company strategy consultant, Joe leads the entire team and specializes in strategy, growth, and the firm's tech capabilities.
Machinery & Equipment Appraiser
Third-generation auctioneer and CAGA Certified Appraiser with more than 20 years valuing machinery, equipment, vehicles, business assets, and estates for banks, attorneys, and trustees across the Carolinas.
Vehicle Appraiser
CAGA Certified Appraiser since 2014, covering vehicles, boats, equipment, fine art, and collectibles. A classic-car restoration background informs her vehicle work, with reports prepared for insurance, divorce, and charitable contributions.
Client Success Manager
Manages each engagement from the first enquiry to the delivered report, and keeps you posted at every step along the way.
Certified Appraisers Guild of AmericaCertified Appraiser
The Appraisal FoundationAuthorized by Congress as the source of appraisal standardsAppraiseItNow appraises machinery and equipment in Alaska for loan collateral, financial reporting, charitable gifts, estate inventories and sales between owners. The premise is chosen before any figure is reached, because the same excavator can be worth one thing standing in a working yard and another in a two week sale, and a report that does not say which it answered helps neither reader.
Estates and gifts
Where a business passes through probate, its equipment is valued as of the date of death, grouped by category when the count is large, and taken in the condition the shop was actually in rather than as a list of catalog models.
Financial reporting
After an acquisition or a partner's exit, equipment carried on the books needs values that can be tested later. Each group of assets, its condition and the evidence behind its figure are identified separately.
Sales between owners
When one side is buying out the other, a single supported schedule settles more than two opinions do, and it still answers for itself when a lender or an insurer asks later how the numbers were reached.
Two forces pull on every Alaskan machine: what the weather and the work have done to it, and what it would cost to put it in front of the next buyer.
Condition
A low hour machine left outdoors through several winters is not the same asset as a high hour machine that was sheltered and serviced. Both stories are read, and the report says which way the evidence pointed.
Freight and location
A unit on the road system, a unit in a village served by barge and a unit already staged for shipment do not face the same buyers, and what it costs to move it sits inside the figure either way. A buyer outside the state prices the same machine net of getting it south, which is why freight is set out in the report instead of being buried in an adjustment.
Alaska leaves business personal property to its boroughs, and two neighbours have landed in opposite places. Where a machine sits decides what has to be reported about it, and what a reported figure is then used for.
Anchorage returns
April 30
The Anchorage business property return deadline
Anchorage owners of business personal property report it every year by category, year of acquisition and cost. The municipality's personal property section then establishes an assessed value, which its instructions describe as the estimated price the property would bring in an open market under then prevailing market conditions. The return must be completed, signed and postmarked before April 30 of the tax year. Audits can reach back six years for property that was never reported, and where an owner does not file at all, the assessor is required to estimate the value instead. Licensed vehicles stay off the return, because a registration tax is paid when the vehicle is licensed.
Borough by borough
$1,000,000
Where the Mat Su borough starts taxing business inventory
The Matanuska Susitna Borough exempts all personal property from borough taxation under state law, except business inventory in excess of $1,000,000 in value, which stays subject to ad valorem tax. The borough tells owners outright that desks, chairs, computers, copiers, supplies and equipment used for business purposes, including rented or leased equipment, need no personal property return there. Where a return is required it is due on or before March 15, and filing late adds a fifteen percent penalty to the tax. A machine's exposure in Alaska therefore depends on which borough it sits in rather than on what it is.
Matanuska Susitna Borough business inventory return, MSB 3.15.035
What Alaska clients say we are known for
Across 16 published Alaska appraisal reviews, every one from a client who paid AppraiseItNow for an appraisal, the three things they raise most often are that they would hire us again, how quickly we answer, and how much research is visible in the report.
I recommend AppraiseItNow Inc. highly. I needed an appraisal of fair market value for geologic laboratory equipment for charitable donations to three universities. The unique items and limited secondary market complicated the valuation. They provided a sound, verifiable estimate and the 8283 forms that I was able to use in my tax filings. I would use them again.
Lab Equipment Appraisal for Charitable Donation
AppraiseItNow did an outstanding job appraising my 1998 Bobcat Skid Steer and circa 2010 Yuchai Crawler Dozer. We could not locate a serial number on the dozer, and there were no online sales available, but they were still able to develop an accurate appraisal using known specifications for my dozer compared to other comparable make and model dozers. They diligently researched both equipment items and provided well-documented reports.
Machinery & Equipment Appraisal
I highly recommend the AppraiseItNow team. They were responsive and timely from start to finish, and the whole process was seamless. The final report was super detailed and gave me all the information I needed. I am so glad I hired them and would recommend them to anyone needing an appraisal!
Technology Equipment Appraisal for Divorce
I needed an IRS-qualified appraisal for an unusual and costly piece of medical equipment. AppraiseItNow was able to provide me exactly what I needed on a timely basis. The personnel at the company are very friendly and helpful. I would definitely use them again.
Medical Equipment Appraisal for Charitable Donation
Affordable and reliable, with fast service and always responsive to my messages and questions. They delivered my appraisal on time without a glitch. 100% Recommended! I wouldn’t use anyone else for my business. Thank you, Joe — you’re great!
Machinery & Equipment Appraisal for Bankruptcy Filing
They did an appraisal of medical equipment for donation. They did it quickly, and I received a blank form 8283 signed by the appraiser. It was what I needed. The price was higher than I wanted to spend on an appraisal, but a lot lower than other appraisers. AppraiseItNow was very responsive and communicative, and the other appraisers were not. I would use them again.
Medical Equipment Appraisal for Charitable Donation
Given the USPAP-compliant nature of AppraiseItNow’s appraisal reports, we prepare our deliverables for major legal, tax, and financial reporting purposes for individual and commercial clients.
Popular uses of our appraisal reports include:
From auction platforms such as IronPlanet, MachineryTrader, and BidSpotter, plus dealer listings and manufacturer data. Observed prices are adjusted for age, hours, and brand, and notably for location, installation, and transportation costs, which matter for equipment operating in Alaska.
Because they underwrite against downside scenarios. Orderly and forced liquidation values assume compressed marketing periods and can sit dramatically below fair market value for the same machine, so a report built on the wrong premise can misstate collateral coverage.
Yes, above an exemption. Anchorage requires an annual Business Personal Property Assessment Return reporting property owned as of January 1, and effective January 1, 2026 the first $100,000 of assessed value per taxpayer is exempt, so filings matter mainly for larger equipment holdings. Alaska statutes require assessment at full and true value, meaning fair market value.
Yes, on a fixed timeline. The assessor may value your machinery independently, and that valuation is prima facie evidence under AS 29.45.130, so the burden falls on the owner. Assessment notices must be mailed at least 30 days before board of equalization hearings under AS 29.45.170, and a documented independent appraisal is the strongest rebuttal evidence in that window.
