International Tax & Transfer Pricing (non-degree) Certificates or LL.M. (for law graduates) / Master Legal Studies (for accountants, economists, and financial professionals) are designed for an in-depth study of tax risk management.

Sample of Courses (see graduate programs catalog)

• Transfer Pricing l – Methods, Econometrics, and Tangibles – January start
• Transfer Pricing II – Services and Intangibles – March start
• International Tax Risk Management I – Data, Analytics, and Technology
• International Taxation and Treaties I – residency issues – August start
• International Taxation and Treaties II – source issues – October start
• Inhouse Tax Counsel: Tax Systems and Risk Management – summer
• Domestic (Inbound) Tax Risk Management – August start
• U.S. International Tax Risk Management – Data and Analytics – Spring
• U.S. International Tax Risk Management – Law and Regulation – Summer
• FATCA, CRS, and AEoI Risk Management – summer
• European Union Tax Risk Management – March start

Example of Weekly Case Study for Domestic (Inbound) Tax Risk Management Week 1: Aug 25 – Aug 31

A seven-week course case study, where you will serve as the new in-house international tax team, focused on its foreign operations, of Natmed Serland SA, one of the leading global FMCG Companies. The week before you must report to the office, your inhouse team has been provided Natmed’s operational briefing, department (functional) interviews briefing, and all relevant financials. Your team must come together before the first week and discuss Natmed because for your first week in the office, your team will hit the ground running. The Board of Directors has instructed the in-house tax department to brief the Operational Board weekly for one hour, over six weeks, on a specific tax risk topic area related to NatMed’s overall tax risk management and financial health. In the seventh week, at the annual Full Board meeting, your team has been granted an hour, hard-stop time slot on the agenda to provide its final tax risk management prognosis of Natmed Serland. 

Your faculty case study facilitators consists of Pramod Kumar (International Tax Director, Michelin North America); Hafiz Choudhury (M Group Principal); Dr. Maji Rhee (Dean, Center for International Education; Professor, Faculty of International Research and Education, School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University) and Professor William Byrnes.

For week 1, Pramod Kumar, our in-house tax director expert, will lead the week 1 and week 2 learning on tax risk management concerning our fictional Natmed Serland SA, one of the world’s largest natural-healthcare groups with revenues exceeding €1.28 billion and a legacy that stretches back more than a century, earns 95 percent of its turnover outside its small European home market. Late on a Friday in August 2025, U.S. trade officials announce an immediate 18 percent customs duty on imported herbal creams and toothpastes—core items within Natmed’s flagship “Natmed” and “Natca” ranges. Overnight, margins on American sales collapse.

That same evening the chief executive summons the in-house tax team. A lifeline has appeared: the founding family of GreenLeaf Botanicals LLC, a New-Jersey contract manufacturer that already toll-produces half of Natmed’s leading balm for private-label chains, is willing to sell. For USD 640 million in cash, Natmed can acquire 100 percent of GreenLeaf, re-domesticating production and escaping the new tariff. Exclusivity on the offer, however, expires in ten calendar days. The tax department must determine whether the deal truly neutralizes the duty hit, estimate the combined U.S. effective-tax-rate under domestic tax rules, and craft the deal tax covenants before the board will vote. 

The executive leadership has entrusted the mandate to its in-house Tax team with full autonomy—ask every question, run any model, and decide with the best information you can gather before Day 10. The information available is posted in your Canvas classroom case study folder

Week 1 Analysis and deliverables

• As the tax department, draft a one-page “Go / No-Go” executive memorandum that frames the deal’s upside, flags the unresolved risks, and proposes a tax covenant that the board could insist on before signing. This must be submitted to the board by the evening of August 31, 8 pm Central (Dallas).
• Prepare and deliver the tax department’s presentation to the executive board members meeting via Zoom on Monday evening.
• Meanwhile, William Byrnes will lead this week’s learning for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) updates to the U.S. Subpart F regime.  
• Research Practicum: William Byrnes will undertake a show-and-learn using the IBFD.

Certificate and Degree candidates are exposed to (i) international tax laws, regulations, and policies in the international tax risk management field, (ii) technology and tax data management, and (iii) weekly practice case studies using Zoom and team groups. Individuals who complete the program will be able to synthesize scenarios, practice, and legal regulation in the international tax risk management field, providing analysis or judgments for consideration to organizational leadership with a nuanced perspective.

Courses are offered by asynchronous distance learning to provide a flexible schedule for working professionals. Interactive coursework includes case study assignments and regular interaction with classmates & the faculty through twice-weekly Zoom meetings (recorded), pre-recorded videos, audio casts, discussion boards, and group breakout sessions.  For more information, contact Admissions: https://www.law.tamu.edu/admissions-aid/how-to-apply/index.html

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