About Business Valuation Cost
What a UK business valuation costs, and why the purpose of the valuation decides the fee.
What is on this site
One question, "business valuation", answered with a quote form that works on the page with no account, 5 guides on the questions around it, a data table you can cite (the figures and their method), and the sources every figure rests on.
- What drives a business valuation fee, and why no firm publishes a price: Valuation fees are quoted per engagement because scope follows purpose. The variables that move the number, and how to get comparable quotes from two firms.
- Valuations for tax: HMRC Shares and Assets Valuation, EMI and CGT: How HMRC handles share valuations: what SAV will and will not do, the 90-day EMI limit, form VAL231, post-transaction checks on CG34, and the four-week target.
- Valuations for divorce and shareholder disputes: a different product: An expert valuation for court is governed by Part 35 of the Civil Procedure Rules: permission is required, costs must be estimated, and the expert's duty is to the court.
- Formal valuation report or a broker's free appraisal: which you need: A free business appraisal and a formal valuation report are different products with different purposes and different liability. When each is the right thing to buy.
- Company valuation calculator: what a multiple can and cannot tell you: Why an online company valuation calculator returns a number you cannot use, what industry multiples are, and what a formal valuation adds that arithmetic does not.
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Business Valuation Cost is a free introduction service operated by Ellul Solutions Ltd. We pass your details to relevant valuation firms and accountants, who contact you directly with their own fees. We may receive a fee from those providers; you pay nothing and are under no obligation. We do not produce valuations, we are not affiliated with HMRC, ICAEW, RICS or the Ministry of Justice, and nothing on this site is tax, accounting or legal advice. Statutory and HMRC figures are quoted from the official sources cited, with the date those sources give.