Master of Laws in Taxation
Providing expert taxation advice is today one of the career opportunities most in demand in the legal field. The knowledge and practice from traditional degrees is not enough to achieve excellence in this specialism: to reach the highest standards of quality a specialised Master’s degree’s course is an essential addition to your training.
The MAF at UIC Barcelona is just what you need to reach this level of expertise.
The programme is much more than just adding to and delving further into what you learn about taxation in an undergraduate degree. It is designed by specialists in taxation advice, based on the idea that its graduates should be able join the teams of the most prestigious specialists at a national and international level. To make sure this is the case, the teaching team includes the best professionals from top firms, alongside employees from the upper echelons of the Tax Authorities, judges and university lecturers. The idea is that Master’s degree students give the very best of themselves, achieving results well above the average. This will help them meet the requirements of the most prestigious firms and consultancies and, at the same time, be prepared for providing their professional services within the country's leading companies.
Objectives
- Excellent training of students to work in the profession of legal-tax planning and advice at the highest level,
- An wide-ranging teaching model,
- Making the most of the connection between the academic and professional worlds, and
- Providing a wide-ranging and complete vision of the current reality and economic situation.
Who it is aimed at. Applicant profile
- University graduates, particularly those coming from legal and economics degrees (Law, Business Administration, Economics).
- Professionals who have recently entered the taxation advice employment market, and who require more in-depth knowledge of the different areas of taxation, a review of the knowledge they have acquired in their working life and a skills update.
- Professionals from other sectors, especially auditors, financial and administrative directors, accounting officers, asset managers and those working in corporate banking, for whom knowledge of taxation has become an important addition to their work.
The Master’s degree has been designed to be compatible with people who are in employment, since it is considered to be a course that will complement professional practice.
Competences. Course objectives
The main objective of this Master’s degree is to enable students to enter the professional world of taxation advice; to this end we try to emphasise the skills specific to the profession, but also include the human and personal perspective that should always be present. This allows us to ensure that during the course students acquire certain unique qualities:
- Hard workers: excellent individual and team working skills
- Excellent professionals: excellence in professional knowledge of taxation
- Good colleagues: the interpersonal and leadership skills needed to advance in their career
- Better people: professionals with an ethical perspective on the cases submitted to them

