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Business valuations in Florida for donations, M&A, gift tax, and IRA conversion, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises small businesses, corporations, partnerships, franchises, and professional practices across Florida, including Miami, Orlando, and Tampa.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT BUSINESS APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, FLORIDA 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 provides professional business valuation appraisal services throughout Florida, supporting clients across a wide range of purposes including charitable donations, mergers and acquisitions, gift tax reporting, and IRA conversions. Florida's dynamic economy, spanning industries from hospitality and construction to fintech and aerospace, creates constant demand for accurate, defensible valuations of privately held companies, professional practices, and fractional business interests. Whether you are exercising statutory appraisal rights under Florida Statutes § 605.1006 during an LLC merger or conversion, preparing for a business sale, or satisfying IRS requirements for a qualified appraisal, our credentialed appraisers apply nationally recognized methodologies including the income, market, and asset approaches under USPAP standards.
Our appraisers serve clients across Florida through both remote and onsite engagements, making it easy to obtain a thorough valuation regardless of your business location, from Miami and Tampa to Orlando and Tallahassee. Remote appraisals are completed using financial records, tax returns, and supporting documentation submitted digitally, while onsite visits are available for businesses requiring physical inspection of assets or operations. We offer Fair Market Value (FMV) appraisals for various intended uses, and our team is experienced in preparing reports that meet IRS safe harbor standards, satisfy legal and regulatory requirements, and hold up to scrutiny in M&A due diligence or tax proceedings. Learn more about our national business appraisal capabilities and how we tailor each engagement to the specific needs of Florida business owners and their advisors.
AppraiseItNow appraises a broad range of business types and ownership interests across Florida's diverse economy, delivering valuations that reflect current market conditions, applicable discounts, and the specific purpose of each engagement. Our appraisers are experienced with businesses of all sizes, from sole proprietorships and small service companies to multi-location enterprises and complex holding structures. Business types we commonly appraise in Florida include:
For more narrowly scoped engagements, we also appraise individual business segments, intangible assets such as customer lists and trade names, and goodwill components that must be separated for tax or transaction purposes. Florida's compliance environment, including licensing requirements in construction, hospitality, and healthcare, directly affects SDE multiples and valuation outcomes, and our appraisers account for these factors in every report.
AppraiseItNow serves business owners, CPAs, estate planning attorneys, M&A advisors, financial planners, and individual investors throughout Florida who need credentialed, USPAP-compliant business valuations for tax reporting, transactional, legal, or planning purposes. Whether you are a startup founder navigating 409A compliance, an LLC member asserting statutory appraisal rights, or an executor managing estate tax obligations, our team is equipped to deliver the documentation and analysis you need.
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:
The income, market, and asset-based approaches, which professional standards from the AICPA, ASA, NACVA, and the IRS all require an analyst to consider before selecting and weighting the methods that best fit the company. Market approach work draws on private transaction databases such as DealStats and BIZCOMPS rather than generic price guides.
Only as reasonableness checks. NACVA's professional standards state that rules of thumb should not stand alone because a multiple of sales or EBITDA ignores earnings quality, growth prospects, asset mix, and risk. In tax, divorce, or shareholder disputes, a broker's rule-of-thumb figure typically fails professional and regulatory expectations.
As of a date the judge finds just and equitable under section 61.075, Florida Statutes, and in practice that usually means a date as near to trial as practicable. Florida is an equitable distribution state, so the court divides marital assets fairly rather than applying community property rules, and competing expert valuations are common.
Documented workpapers. IRS Business Valuation Guidelines (Internal Revenue Manual 4.48.4) require analysis of the company's history, industry outlook, financial condition, prior transactions, and comparable sales, with every step recorded so the conclusion can survive examination. Valuations supporting Form 706 or 709 filings are prepared to that documentation standard.
