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Business valuations in Arkansas for donations, M&A, gift tax, and IRA conversion, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises small businesses, partnerships, corporations, franchises, and professional practices across Arkansas, including Little Rock, Fort Smith, and Fayetteville.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT BUSINESS APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, ARKANSAS 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.
Business Valuation Expert & Appraiser
ASA, ABV, and CFA charterholder. Since 2016 Justin has valued businesses for estate and gift tax, purchase price allocations, fairness opinions, lending, and buy-sell agreements, across manufacturing, services, retail, and pre-revenue biotech.
Business Valuation Expert & Appraiser
Accredited Senior Appraiser with the American Society of Appraisers. Raymond values capital stock, business enterprises, stock options, and intangible assets.
Client Success Manager
Manages each engagement from the first enquiry to the delivered report, and keeps you posted at every step along the way.
American Society of AppraisersAccredited Senior Appraiser
The Appraisal FoundationAuthorized by Congress as the source of appraisal standardsAppraiseItNow appraises limited liability companies, partnerships, corporations and professional practices in Arkansas for gift and estate returns, shareholder exits, retirement account reporting and pending sales. Every engagement is quoted as a fixed fee before any work begins.
Gift and estate returns
A gift of units or shares is reported at fair market value on the date of the transfer, and any discount for lack of control or lack of marketability is supported rather than asserted. The reasoning sits in the report where a reviewer can read it.
Shareholder exits and divorce
A buyout or a marital division needs a figure neither party drew up. The analysis works from the company’s own statements, its owner earnings and the terms of comparable transactions in the same industry.
Retirement accounts
A self directed account holding an interest in a company needs a value on the custodian’s form, signed by a professional outside the account. Holding entities whose only asset is a bank account are an ordinary case, not an awkward one.
One company supports more than one number, because the standard, the date and the interest being valued all move with the assignment. Each Arkansas report states which of the three it was written to.
The interest valued
A ten percent interest with no say over distributions or a sale is worth less than a tenth of the company, and how much less is a question of evidence. Control, distribution history and any agreement restricting transfer all bear on it.
The date
A valuation answers for one date: the day of a gift, the day before a deal, the day a court settles on. What happened afterward informs the view only where it was foreseeable at the time, which is why a report written months later still has to argue from what was knowable then.
Two Arkansas rules sit behind the value of a closely held company: the standard a departing shareholder is paid under, and how the state treats the gain when the company is sold.
Shareholder exits
Fair value
is the Arkansas standard for a dissenting shareholder
Arkansas defines fair value, for a shareholder who dissents from a merger or a similar corporate action, as the value of the shares immediately before the action takes effect, excluding any appreciation or depreciation in anticipation of it unless that exclusion would be inequitable. The same statute fixes interest from the effective date until payment at the average rate the corporation pays on its principal bank loans. The date and the exclusion are both doing work: an analysis built on the deal’s own price, or on figures that moved because the deal was coming, answers a different question than the one the statute asks.
Sales
50%
of a net capital gain stays outside Arkansas income tax
Arkansas exempts fifty percent of net capital gains from state income tax for gains on and after July 1, 2016, and exempts entirely the amount of net capital gain above ten million dollars in a tax year, for gains realized on or after January 1, 2014. For an owner selling a company, that puts real weight on how the price is allocated across goodwill, equipment and the rest of the assets, and an allocation is only as good as the values underneath it.
What clients say we are known for
Across 80+ published AppraiseItNow reviews the picture is consistent: every one is from a client who paid us for an appraisal, and 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.
Responsive, professional, first class deliverables -- especially considering that that the appraised assets are extremely complex financial assets with little by way of comps. The deliverable satisfied my accountants and advisers as being more than adequate to support the valuation needed to complete a conversion to a Roth IRA
Business Valuation Appraisal for IRA Conversion
Joe and Aron were extremely impressive - the entire process went very smoothly. They were always quick to respond to any questions I had and could not have been more helpful. They were aware of some tight time restrictions I had and made sure I received my reports in a timely fashion. I highly recommend them to anyone needing a valuation.
Business Valuation Appraisal for Charitable Donation
I used AppraiseItNow to examine a contribution to a foundation. Their work was quick, thorough, and easy to work with, as they’ve developed a simple system for uploading documents. I plan to use them again.
Business Valuation Appraisal for Charitable Donation
The team was highly knowledgeable, helpful, and efficient. I highly recommend their appraisal services, especially for private companies.
Business Valuation Appraisal for IRA Conversion
I found them professional & responsive. The report was quite thorough as well.
Business Valuation Appraisal for Charitable Donation
From the start they were very responsive, price competitive, and had a quick turn around time. Thank you so much to Joe who was very sweet in responding to my emails; I am looking forward to utilizing AppraiseItNow for many years to come.
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:
Considering all three approaches, income, market, and asset-based, and documenting why any was rejected, per IRS guidelines and professional standards. Reviewers commonly flag reports that skip that explanation, and workpapers must trace the path from financial data to concluded value.
From transaction databases like DealStats (formerly Pratt's Stats), BIZCOMPS, and GF Data recording real deal prices and terms, plus guideline public company data. That evidence base is what separates a valuation from a broker's rule-of-thumb estimate.
There is no single statutory date. Arkansas courts generally value marital property based on the evidence at the time of the divorce hearing, with discretion to choose another date to reach an equitable result, so the engagement should confirm the date with counsel before work begins.
Between the first business day in March and October 15 each year under A.C.A. §26-26-1408. Counties also require personal property taxes to be paid before they will accept most real estate tax payments, so the deadline effectively gates both bills.
Yes. Household property normally escapes assessment, but anything used to produce income, from equipment to furnishings in a home office, loses that exemption and must be listed as commercial personal property on the business form. The distinction turns on use, not location.
