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Business valuations in Idaho for donations, M&A, gift tax, and IRA conversion, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises small businesses, partnerships, corporations, professional practices, and franchises across Idaho, including Boise, Nampa, and Meridian.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT BUSINESS APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, IDAHO 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 values Idaho businesses and the ownership stakes inside them, for donations and gift returns, estate filings, self directed retirement accounts, divorce, and owners buying each other out. What a report will be used for decides the standard of value, and in Idaho two of the likeliest uses, a buyout ordered by a court and a marital division, arrive with rules the parties do not get to set.
Returns and gifts
A gift or donation of units or shares is reported at the amount it would have changed hands for when it moved, with earnings normalized, the comparable transactions named, and any discount for lack of control or marketability supported instead of asserted.
Divorce and buyouts
A buyout or a marital division needs a conclusion both sides can test against the same records, and it needs a date. We value the interest at issue rather than the company in the abstract, and we say what that interest can and cannot compel the business to do.
An Idaho operating company, a professional practice, a farm with ground and machinery behind it, and a holding entity that owns passive assets are four different valuation problems. The approach follows the company rather than the other way round: earnings where there are earnings, assets where the assets are the business.
Farms and processors
An agricultural operation carries real property, machinery, inventory and leases, and an asset based conclusion needs each of them restated at market rather than at book. Our Idaho equipment appraisal work usually runs inside that file.
Professional practices
Where revenue follows one practitioner, the worth of the business and the worth of that person's own labor have to be separated, and a covenant not to compete changes what a buyer is actually acquiring.
Holding entities
An entity holding land, notes or securities is valued from what the agreement permits a holder to do. Distributions, transfer restrictions and who controls a sale all weigh on an interest that cannot force anything by itself.
Idaho writes the valuation date into one proceeding and the ownership of a company's profits into another. Both move the answer before any analysis of the business itself begins.
Buyouts
Ninety days
To elect a purchase instead of dissolution
In a proceeding to dissolve a corporation on a shareholder's petition, the corporation, or failing that one or more shareholders, may elect to purchase all of the petitioner's shares at fair value. The election may be filed within ninety days of the petition, or later if the court allows, and it is irrevocable unless the court sets it aside. If the parties do not agree on fair value and terms within sixty days of the first election, the court determines fair value as of the day before the date the petition was filed, or as of another date it considers appropriate in the circumstances.
Marital property
Income is community
Profits of a separate Idaho business
In Idaho the income, including the rents, issues and profits, of all property, separate or community, is community property unless the instrument that conveyed the property provides otherwise, or both spouses declare in a written agreement that specified property and its income are separate. A company one spouse owned before the marriage can therefore remain separate while what it earned during the marriage does not, which splits a divorce valuation into two questions: what the interest is worth, and what it produced along the way.
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:
A credible report states the standard of value, premise of value, effective date, the exact interest being valued, key assumptions, and the information sources behind the conclusion. Professional standards from the ASA, NACVA, AICPA, and USPAP all require these elements, and a report missing them invites challenge.
Not for anything formal. Professional standards restrict rules of thumb to secondary reasonableness checks because they ignore company-specific earnings quality, growth prospects, asset mix, and risk. A supportable value comes from analyzing your actual financial statements under the income, market, and asset-based approaches.
No. Idaho repealed its state estate tax and levies no inheritance tax, so a business interest in an Idaho estate matters for federal estate tax reporting rather than a state death tax. Date-of-death valuation remains the foundation for the federal side and for fair distribution among heirs.
Yes. Idaho Code 15-3-707 lets the personal representative employ a qualified and disinterested appraiser for any asset whose value may be subject to reasonable doubt, and the appraiser’s name and address must appear on the inventory next to the items they appraised. Different appraisers may handle different asset classes, so a company interest and the machinery inside it can each go to a specialist.
Yes, as of the date it arrives. Idaho Code 63-205 sets the annual assessment date at 12:01 a.m. on January 1 but provides that personal property entering the state after that date is assessed on the date of entry. A company relocating machinery into Idaho picks up an assessment in the year of the move rather than waiting for the next January snapshot.
