Blog Posted By Gibraltar Business Valuations 23-Jun-2022 Busier Than Ever: Gibraltar Business Valuations Featured in Crain's Chicago Business Don M. Drysdale of Gibraltar Business Valuations recently sat down with H. Lee Murphy of Crain's Chicago Business for an interview about our booming business valuation practice. Drysdale told Crain’s that he’s the busiest he’s ... Continue Reading Posted By Gibraltar Business Valuations 5-Sep-2019 Landmark Tax Court Case Strikingly Similar to GBV's Approach (Treharne Model) Historically the US Tax Court has, in some of its decisions, ignored the economic reality of income taxes associated with pass-through entities (PTEs, i.e., S-corporations, limited liability companies, and partnerships). Now, the Court has issued a ... Continue Reading Posted By Gibraltar Business Valuations 5-Sep-2019 GBV's Chris Treharne response to comments on the Kress case Editor's note: The Kress case has received a great deal of attention on a number of valuation front, most notably that both the taxpayer and the government tax affected the earnings of the subject S corp. This letter is a response to comments ... Continue Reading Posted By Gibraltar Business Valuations 5-Dec-2016 Gibraltar Business Valuations Testifies Before Treasury Department Chris Treharne of Gibraltar Business Valuations recently testified before the Treasury Department regarding an IRS regulation that may dramatically reduce the ability to apply valuation discounts to intra-family transfers of interest for ... Continue Reading Posted By Gibraltar Business Valuations 14-Dec-2015 What happened when a client looked to change valuation firms? What happened when a Long-Term Client look to change valuation firms Last year, Gibraltar Business Valuations performed the annual valuation for a long-time client. This client was reevaluating all of its professional service providers, and had ... Continue Reading Posted By Gibraltar Business Valuations 11-Dec-2015 The U.S. Department of Justice. Another satisfied client. The U.S. Department of Justice, another satisfied client. When the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) needed expertise to understand a valuation report submitted by a taxpayer, they turned to Drysdale Valuation for help. The case involved ... Continue Reading Posted By Gibraltar Business Valuations 10-Dec-2015 Will Your ESOP Valuation Measure Up? Will Your ESOP Valuation Pass DOL Strutiny? The Department of Labor (“DOL”) has not been shy about expressing their distaste for ESOPs. One DOL official even went as far as saying, “I have never seen a good ESOP.” This ... Continue Reading Posted By Gibraltar Business Valuations 31-Aug-2015 Another Business Puts Their Trust in Gibraltar Business Valuations - But With a Twist Gibraltar Business Valuations has been engaged to appraise the value of a taxi cab operation in Arizona. That's right, a taxi cab operation. With the advent of Uber and other ride sharing businesses, and the pressure they have put on the ... Continue Reading Posted By Gibraltar Business Valuations 28-Aug-2015 How Long Have We Helped This Employee Owned Company? For eight consecutive years a unique engineering firm that operates worldwide has selected Gibraltar Business Valuations to perform ESOP valuation services, assisting the trustees in their obligation to value the shares held for the benefit of the ... Continue Reading Posted By Gibraltar Business Valuations 19-Aug-2015 Unexpected Letter From the IRS Several years ago Gibraltar Business Valuations was approached by an estate planning attorney to help in the valuation of a business enterprise where one of the owners unexpectantly died. This, by itself, is not unusual. What was unusual was the ... Continue Reading Posted By Gibraltar Business Valuations 9-Jun-2015 A Call Out of the Blue I received a telephone call today from another business appraiser. I met him at a conference several years ago and this was the first time I had talked to him since. He explained that he had performed a business appraisal for a buy-sell agreement. It ... Continue Reading