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Equipment appraisals in Kansas for donations, lending, M&A, and financial reporting, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises industrial equipment, manufacturing machinery, construction equipment, agricultural equipment, and fleet vehicles across Kansas, including Wichita, Overland Park, and Kansas City.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, KANSAS 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 agricultural machinery, production and shop equipment, construction iron, and oilfield service units in Kansas for charitable contributions, asset based lending, mergers and acquisitions, estate filings, and financial reporting.
What we value
A single tractor, press, or excavator is valued on its own terms. A whole floor or a whole yard is valued by category, with the units that carry the money priced one at a time and the balance grouped. Which approach a job needs usually turns on how the reader will use the schedule.
Why owners order one
A bank will not size a facility until it knows what the collateral is worth. A charity taking in a machine, a buyer pricing a line, and an executor closing a book each arrive with a different question about the same iron, and each needs an answer before the paperwork can move.
Who the report is for
A tax filing, a credit file, an audit workpaper, and a court exhibit are not the same document. We confirm the reader and the intended use before quoting, and titled trucks sitting in the same fleet are handled as Kansas vehicle appraisals rather than folded into the equipment schedule.
Premise comes first. What the report has to do decides which market we read a unit against, and the same forklift can be worth one number standing on a plant floor and quite another sitting on an auction ramp.
Lending and reporting
The unit stays where it is, wired in and working, with foundations, tooling and installation inside the figure. Lenders and auditors usually want a machine still in production read this way, because that is the condition it would be bought in.
Exits and shutdowns
One premise gives the seller months to find the right buyer. The other fixes a sale date and takes teardown, rigging and freight out of whatever the unit brings. The gap between the two is usually wide, and on specialized equipment it can be the whole conversation.
Kansas taxes commercial and industrial machinery on a statutory schedule, but two exemptions lift a great deal of equipment off the roll before any schedule applies. Which side of them a machine falls on changes what an owner is actually looking at.
Newer machinery
After June 30, 2006
the line Kansas drew for exempting commercial and industrial machinery and equipment
Kansas exempts from all property and ad valorem taxes commercial and industrial machinery and equipment acquired by qualified purchase or lease made or entered into after June 30, 2006, as the result of a bona fide transaction not consummated for the purpose of avoiding taxation. The same exemption reaches machinery and equipment transported into the state after that date to expand an existing business or create a new one.
The statute is narrow about what counts. A qualified purchase or lease is one for fair and valuable consideration, and a qualified lease has to run at least 30 days with the machine physically transferred to the lessee to be used in the lessee's business. Property moved in by an exchange for stock securities, or passed between going concerns in a merger, reorganization or consolidation, is not treated as acquired at all. Renewable electric generation facilities are written out of the definition.
Farm machinery
Trucks excluded
what Kansas leaves out of the farm machinery exemption, farm trailers aside
All farm machinery and equipment is exempt from Kansas property and ad valorem taxes, meaning personal property actually and regularly used in any farming or ranching operation. The term reaches a bed, body or box attached to a motor vehicle and regularly used that way unless the manufacturer attached it, and a greenhouse not permanently affixed to real estate. Feedlots, farm or ranch work performed for hire, and the planting and harvesting of nursery and greenhouse products for sale all count as farming or ranching operations.
What the exemption does not reach is spelled out: no passenger vehicle, truck, truck tractor, trailer, semitrailer or pole trailer qualifies, other than a farm trailer. So a grain cart and a self propelled sprayer sit on one side of the line and the tandem that hauls them sits on the other. That is worth sorting out before a lender or an executor reads a single schedule across a whole operation.
What Kansas clients say we are known for
Across 17 published Kansas 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
I needed a rapid turnaround appraisal on a charitable donation. The team here was able to review and complete my appraisal in under 24 hours, the same day that I sent the request in. Very impressive and incredibly helpful!
Machinery & 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
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:
Commercial and industrial machinery is appraised at its retail cost when new and depreciated straight-line over a maximum of seven years, but as long as the equipment remains in use its taxable value cannot fall below 20 percent of retail cost. County appraisers apply this formula using state-prescribed valuation guides.
March 15 for most tangible personal property, with April 1 for oil and gas property, and penalties apply for late filing or non-filing. Since a 2024 amendment, an annual rendition is only required when there are changes or no prior accurate filing on record.
Because the statutory retail-cost-when-new formula is a standardized schedule, while a market appraisal reflects actual condition, obsolescence, and secondary-market demand for the specific machine. The two can diverge substantially, which is why lenders, buyers, and courts rely on market-based appraisals rather than tax values.
Not at the state level. Kansas has no estate or inheritance tax, so machinery passing to heirs faces only federal estate tax, and only in estates above the federal exclusion. A fair market value appraisal at the date of death still matters for the probate inventory and for documenting the heirs’ basis in the equipment.
Under equitable distribution. Kansas courts divide marital property, business equipment included, in the manner they deem just and reasonable based on factors like the length of the marriage and each spouse’s contributions, not by an automatic 50/50 split. A documented market value for the machinery keeps that allocation grounded in evidence rather than book figures.
