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Business valuations in New Jersey 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 New Jersey, including Newark, Jersey City, and Trenton.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT FRACTIONAL INTEREST APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, NEW JERSEY 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 New Jersey, supporting clients across a wide range of purposes including charitable donations, mergers and acquisitions, gift tax reporting, and IRA conversions. New Jersey's economy is anchored by major industry clusters in pharmaceuticals and biotech around Princeton and New Brunswick, logistics and port operations near Newark and Elizabeth, and financial services concentrated in Jersey City, all of which generate consistent demand for credible, well-documented business appraisals. Whether you are a business owner planning a sale, an estate attorney managing a transfer, or a CPA navigating IRS compliance requirements, our business valuation appraisers deliver reports built to withstand scrutiny from the IRS, courts, and counterparties.
Our appraisers work both remotely and onsite across New Jersey, accommodating businesses of every size and structure, from closely held family firms to multi-entity enterprises with complex intangible assets. Remote engagements allow us to efficiently gather financial records, ownership documents, and market data without disrupting your operations, while onsite visits are available when a physical review of facilities or equipment is necessary to support the valuation conclusion. We offer Fair Market Value (FMV) appraisals for various intended uses.
AppraiseItNow appraises a broad spectrum of business interests and enterprise assets across New Jersey, applying income, market, and asset-based approaches as appropriate to each engagement. Our valuation work covers:
For more targeted engagements, we also appraise holding companies, real estate operating entities, and businesses where owner-occupied real estate forms a significant component of enterprise value, a common scenario in New Jersey given the state's high commercial property values and ongoing reassessment trends.
AppraiseItNow serves business owners, estate attorneys, CPAs, financial advisors, M&A professionals, and individual shareholders throughout New Jersey who need accurate, IRS-compliant Fair Market Value appraisals for transactions, tax filings, legal proceedings, or strategic planning purposes.
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:
Rarely. Fractional interests are not appraised as a simple pro-rata slice because minority holders lack control and face illiquidity, so appraisers apply documented discounts for lack of control and lack of marketability after valuing the underlying entity. The interest's actual rights and transfer restrictions, not just the percentage, drive the discounts.
A multifactor analysis with no fixed formula. The ruling directs appraisers to weigh the nature and history of the business, economic and industry outlook, earning capacity, dividends, goodwill, block size, and prices of comparable traded stocks. The IRS recognizes no safe-harbor discount percentage, so each New Jersey fractional interest must be supported case by case.
Through the transfer inheritance tax, valued at clear market value on the date of death; the separate state estate tax ended for deaths after January 1, 2018. Appraisals of intangible personal property for the tax are handled by auditors at the Transfer Inheritance Tax Branch, which makes a well-documented valuation of the interest important support for the filing.
Yes. ASA Business Valuation Standards direct appraisers valuing partial interests to consider the asset-based, income, and market approaches and to explain in the report why any approach was excluded. Unexplained omissions are a recurring weakness in contested valuations, and courts and IRS reviewers look for them.
