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Business valuations in Mississippi 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 Mississippi, including Jackson, Gulfport, and Biloxi.
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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 business interests in Mississippi for estate and gift returns, donated shares, buyouts between partners, divorce, and sales under negotiation. Every assignment here is run remotely from the company's own books. Which measure of value applies, on what premise, and as of which day are all written down before a single multiple is picked, because those three choices decide more about the answer than any adjustment made later. What follows is arithmetic anybody can retrace.
Operating companies
A Mississippi manufacturer, contractor or distributor is usually worth what its earnings will support. The equipment is read as the means of producing those earnings rather than as a separate pile of assets to be totaled up beside them, and the two are never added together twice.
Holding entities
An entity whose purpose is to hold land, equipment or securities is measured from its own asset schedule first, then weighed against what the holder of an interest can actually compel under the agreement that governs it. Those two readings can sit a long way apart.
One Mississippi company can carry several supportable figures at the same time, because each one answers a different question. A buyout, a tax filing and a divorce schedule name their own measure and their own date, and a number built for one of those purposes has no standing in another. We write the one the file asks for and say plainly what it is not.
Partner buyouts
The partnership or operating agreement usually sets the standard, the date and the mechanism for a withdrawal. We follow those terms, test whether the records support them, and name the point at which the document runs out and judgment takes over.
Gift and estate filings
The figure comes from the books as they stood on the transfer date and from what the owners knew at the time. Later results are reported as what they are, which is hindsight, and they are kept out of the conclusion.
Mississippi taxes the property a business owns rather than the business itself, and two local decisions can take much of that property off the roll. All three facts change the carrying cost inside a valuation.
Assessment ratio
15%
of true value is where a Mississippi company's equipment and inventory are assessed
Mississippi law sorts property into five classes and assesses each class at a set percentage of its true value. Class III is personal property other than motor vehicles and utility property, which is where a company's furniture, fixtures, machinery, equipment and inventory sit, and the ratio for that class is fifteen percent. Personal property belonging to individuals is generally exempt, so the taxable side of a Mississippi balance sheet is the business side of it. The state's own standard for these appraisals is market value, the same question a valuation asks, reached by a different route and on the county's calendar rather than the owner's.
Enterprise exemptions
Ten years
is the longest a Mississippi exemption can run on any one asset
Local governing authorities in Mississippi may grant property tax exemptions on assets placed in service by qualifying enterprises, a list that reaches warehouses and distribution centers, manufacturers, processors and refineries, research facilities and qualifying regional or national headquarters. The exemption cannot exceed ten years on any particular asset. Inside a valuation that is the difference between a holding cost of nothing today and a known cost arriving on a fixed schedule, so the date each exempt asset went into service belongs in the file next to its cost.
Free port warehouse
Free port
status can take qualifying inventory off a Mississippi company's roll altogether
Mississippi lets local authorities license eligible warehouses, public or private, to operate as free port warehouses, and qualifying personal property held in one can be exempt from property taxes. Whether a company's stock sits inside such a license is a county level question with a county level answer. Two Mississippi companies holding identical inventory can therefore show different holding costs, and that difference belongs in a valuation rather than averaged out of it.
What clients say we are known for
Across 100+ 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:
No. Mississippi's Real Estate Appraiser Licensing and Certification Act covers only real estate appraisal activity, so business valuations fall outside state licensure. What matters to courts, lenders, and the IRS is adherence to recognized valuation standards and a documented, defensible methodology.
Mississippi follows equitable distribution, dividing marital assets by fairness factors such as contributions and economic circumstances rather than a fixed 50/50 split, with valuation typically near trial or separation. A supportable business valuation is usually the largest single input to that division.
Historical and projected financial statements, the company's history and outlook, earning and dividend-paying capacity, prior sales of interests, and comparable transaction data. IRS Business Valuation Guidelines require the workpapers to show how those inputs and any discounts led to the final conclusion.
Through the state pricing guide and percent-good depreciation tables applied by asset class, with deviations allowed only when market-driven and documented. Invoices from arm’s-length purchases are accepted only when they reflect market value and include installation, and industrial property starts from original acquisition cost new including installation. Those mechanics can pull tax values away from what a buyer would actually pay.
In the county, municipality, or district where the property sits on the day the tax lien takes effect, not where the owner resides. Miss. Code 27-35-7 even lets an owner’s agent render the list, with a special rule assessing contractors’ equipment where it is being used. Multi-location companies therefore need location-level asset schedules behind any valuation.
