Foreign Tax & Trade Briefs

Walter H. Diamond, a widely-known international tax authority, whose serviced tax publication "Foreign Tax and Trade Briefs," was the first compendium of its kind when published by Matthew Bender in 1950, and still is the "bible" in the field covering current tax laws of 120 countries, was a United Nations Tax Treaty and Free Trade Zone Advisor as well as Editor and Economist of Overseas Press and Consultants. A former Director of International Taxation and Manager of International Taxes for Deloitte Touche and KPMG Peat Marwick respectively, Mr. Diamond also served as Director of the Economics Department of McGraw-Hill International Corporation and Editor of the McGraw-Hill American Letter. Before joining McGraw-Hill, he was Economist for the Public National Bank and National Bank Examiner in the Second Federal Reserve District, having been in charge of liquidation of foreign banks and businesses for the Alien Property Custodian during World War II.

Mr. Diamond was a graduate of Syracuse University and the American Institute of Banking with post-graduate work at Syracuse and New York Universities in international finance. As a United Nations and US AID Advisor, he handled assignments for more than 50 countries involving taxation, investment, trade development, free trade zones, treaties, export insurance and offshore banking. Mr. Diamond received citations for his assistance in this work from Chief Executive of Honduras and former U.S. Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Sr., while former President Eisenhower appointed him to the French Trade Mission to handle investment and tax problems. As a Foreign Analyst of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Mr. Diamond helped to prepare foreign exchange recommendations for Bretton Woods.

William H. Byrnes (principal author), an Executive Professor of Texas A&M University School of Law, is an author of nine LexisNexis international tax and federal tax treatises, three Tax Facts books of National Underwriter, and over 1,000 tax articles. In 1994, he developed an international tax graduate program, pioneering in 1998 the first online LL.M. offered by an ABA law school (International Taxation). He held a senior position of international tax at Coopers & Lybrand (South Africa) specializing in transfer pricing and functional analysis. Professor Byrnes undertook a three-year transfer pricing fellowship at the IBFD in conjunction with an LL.M. at the University of Amsterdam. His Lexis treatises include Taxation of Intellectual Property and Technology; Practical Guide to U.S. Transfer Pricing; Foreign Tax and Trade Briefs; Guide to FATCA Compliance; Money Laundering, Asset Forfeiture and Recovery, and Compliance; Tax Havens of the World; Federal Taxation of Oil & Gas Transactions; Texas Estate Planning; and International Withholding Tax Guide. He may be contacted at williambyrnes@gmail.com.

Dr. Robert J. Munro is Professor (Adjunct) at Texas A&M University School of Law, and a Senior Research Fellow and Director of Research for North America at CIDOEC at Jesus College, Cambridge University. He holds Masters degrees from the University of Iowa and Louisiana State University, a Juris Doctor from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. from the University of Florida. He has done further graduate studies at Cambridge University, Oxford University and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at the University of London. He is the author of thirty-two published books, including the five-volume treatise, Money Laundering, Asset Forfeiture and International Financial Crimes, the three-volume, Cybercrime and Security, the three-volume Tax Havens of the World and Foreign Tax and Trade Briefs.