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Business valuations in Missouri 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 Missouri, including Kansas City, St. Louis, and Springfield.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT BUSINESS APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, MISSOURI 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 to clients across Missouri, supporting a wide range of financial and legal purposes including charitable donations, mergers and acquisitions, gift tax reporting, and IRA conversions. Missouri's economy is anchored by manufacturing, agribusiness, and logistics, making accurate business valuations essential for owners of family farms, manufacturing firms, warehousing operations, biotech companies, and logistics enterprises throughout the state. Whether you need a valuation for a buy-sell agreement, an ESOP formation, estate planning, or IRS compliance under IRC Section 170 or Section 2031, our credentialed appraisers apply nationally recognized standards to deliver reliable, defensible results.
AppraiseItNow serves Missouri business owners and their advisors through both remote and onsite appraisal options, making it easy to obtain a qualified appraisal regardless of your location in the state. From St. Louis's Cortex Innovation District to Kansas City's agribusiness and logistics corridors, our appraisers understand the regional industries and economic conditions that influence enterprise value in Missouri. We offer Fair Market Value (FMV) appraisals for various intended uses, following USPAP and ASA standards to meet IRS, lender, and regulatory requirements. Learn more about our full business appraisal capabilities and how we can support your specific valuation needs.
AppraiseItNow appraises a broad range of business types and ownership interests across Missouri, covering both asset-heavy industries and service-oriented enterprises. Our appraisers are experienced with the following business subtypes:
For more narrowly focused needs, we also appraise intangible assets such as goodwill, customer lists, and intellectual property as components of a broader business valuation. Our appraisers apply the appropriate valuation methodology, whether income, market, or asset-based approach, based on the nature of the business and the intended use of the appraisal.
AppraiseItNow serves a wide range of clients across Missouri, including business owners, estate attorneys, CPAs, financial advisors, lenders, and nonprofit organizations that require credentialed business valuations for tax, legal, transactional, or regulatory purposes. Whether you are a sole proprietor in Springfield, a manufacturing executive in St. Louis, or an agribusiness operator in rural Missouri, our appraisers are equipped to deliver accurate, compliant valuations tailored to your situation.
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:
Generally as of the dissolution or trial date rather than the date the interest was acquired or the parties separated. Missouri divides marital property, including business interests, under equitable distribution, so a current valuation with a clearly stated effective date is what the court process actually needs.
No. Missouri has no state estate or inheritance tax, so a business interest transfers subject only to federal estate tax and only above the federal exclusion. A fair market valuation at death still pays for itself by documenting the heirs' basis and preventing disputes among successors.
Completed sales of comparable companies from transaction databases such as DealStats, BIZCOMPS, and IBA Market Data, weighed alongside the income approach applied to the company's own earnings. Industry rules of thumb serve only as sanity checks on the conclusion, never as the method.
Not necessarily. Under section 137.122, assessors value depreciable business property for mass appraisal by applying a state-prescribed depreciation schedule tied to federal class lives and recovery periods to original cost. That formula is built for uniformity across thousands of accounts, and it can diverge from the market value a business valuation or transaction requires.
The county where the probate division of the circuit court has jurisdiction, even if the assets physically sit elsewhere in Missouri. Section 137.090 creates this probate-county rule for estate personal property, covering business equipment, vehicles, and collectibles. It is a situs detail that surprises representatives administering multi-county estates.
