What is a Tax lawyer?
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at
1:27 am
i wanted to be a tax lawyer but i dont know how to be one. my course is accountancy and wanted to be a tax lawyer. how many years will i study in order to be a tax cheap prescription drugs lawyer?
What country are you?
In the United States, you need a 4 Year Bachelors’ degree, one additional year to get a Masters to be able to sit for the CPA exam (if you’re a tax lawyer, you probably want to be a CPA as well), and then three years of law school to get your JD. You could cut out the one-year Masters and not be a CPA, but I wouldn’t recommend it. Most tax lawyers are CPAs and you are at a disadvantage if you are not.
Tax Lawyers (in the US) can litigate in Tax or District Court on tax matters. But more frequently, they develop a clientele of wealthy people who can afford them to help them on income tax and estate tax planning in an effort to minimize those tax liabilities.
You would have to go to law school. In the U.S., that is 4 years of undergraduate studies, 3 years of law school. Pass the bar and you’re an attorney.
If you want to specialize in taxes, I’d take accounting classes in undergrad school and even become a CPA.
Probably four for the undergrad course, Accounting would be best, then law school for three years.
One of my college professors is a Tax Attorney. He got his Bachelors in Business, Masters in Accounting, then went to Law School.
He is a licensed CPA & took the exam to become board certified in Tax Law.
I know that Texas Tech University in Lubbock Texas has a Tax Law program where you get your law degree & masters of Tax Law concurrently. There are probably many schools that offer this combination.