Fred C. Johnson

Transfer Pricing Specialist at INDEPENDENT EXPERT

Fred C. Johnson, CPA, established his independent consulting firm, JohnsonTP, in 2017, following partnership at KPMG and EY and a twenty-year career with the IRS. Fred began his professional tax career with the IRS in 1987. At the IRS, Fred conducted numerous face-to-face negotiations of APA and double tax disputes with Japan’s NTA and Canada’s CRA. As a partner at KPMG and EY, Fred served as the West region leader of their dispute resolution and APA practices representing over sixty different MNEs before the IRS in negotiations of APAs and U.S. Competent Authority matters. Fred currently advises a number of leading MNEs in a variety of industries, such as apparel, consumer beverage, technology, automotive, medical device, musical instrument and chemical manufacturing, regarding their APAs and other transfer pricing matters.