Curricular Unit:Code:
Tax Law870DFIS
Year:Level:Course:Credits:
2UndergraduateCommercial Management and Accounting5 ects
Learning Period:Language of Instruction:Total Hours:
Portuguese/English65
Learning Outcomes of the Curricular Unit:
The curricular unit endows students with instrumental and theoretical-practical skílls, which
are essential for understandíng the tax system.
In the end, they have the necessary skills to understand the entlre tax system and its
connection with the various types of taxable person.
To do so, they must have acquired the necessary knowledge to enable them to:
1. Master all the structuring prínciples of the legal tax system;
2. Understand the concept of tax and distinguish between unilateral and bilateral taxes;
3. Know the different types of tax;
4. Understand the national tax legal system and its articulation with European Union rules;
5. Seize and master all elements of the legal tax relationship;
6. Know the structure of tax benefits;
7. Explain the entire structure of tax justice, whether analyzed from an administrative or
judicial perspective.
Syllabus:
1. Public financial activity
2. The Constitutional Principles of Tax Law
3. The relationship between Tax Law ánd Commercial Law and Accounting
4. Taxes
S. The national tax legal system: taxation of income, expenditure, assets
6. The legal-tax relationship
7. Tax benefits
8. Tax justice - lato sensu.
Demonstration of the Syllabus Coherence with the Curricular Unit's Objectives:
So that at the end of the semester the student will be able to (1) Master all the
structuring conceptualization of the legal-tax system, (2) understand the relationship of
Tax Law with ot`her branches of Law, especially with those connected to ecc)nomic agents , (3)
assimilating the national tax system (4) seized and mastered all elements of the legal-tax
relationship, (5) knowing the structure of tax benefits and (6) encompassing the entire
structure of tax justice, whether analyzed in the administrative aspect , whether
].urisdictional, the syllabus contents were structured in order to contemplate all the
knowledge to be acquired. Thus, in order to respond to that desire, the following syllabuses
were integrated: Item (1) - items 1 and 2; Item (2) - item 3; Item (3) - items 4 and 5; Item
(4) - items 6; Item (5) - items 7; Item (6) - Item 8.
Teaching Methodologies (Including Evaluation):
Teaching Methodology - Starting from an exposítory methodology of the legal, doctrinal
and jurisprudential conceptualization of the syllabus. a practical methodology is also
integrated in which case studies presented by the professor and the students are
analyzed, whether they are integrated in group work or individually developed. This whole
cognitive process of learning and the practical application of the acquired theoretical
knowledge is accompanied by encouraging students to research and promote their autonomous
study. It ís intended. therefore, a "know-how" added to a "know-howJÚ.
Continuous assessment - During the course of the classes, one written test are carried
out, with a weighting of 100% for the final grade. Final Exam -Written exam lasting 2 hours and
with a total weight of 100% Class attendance - Attendance at least 50% of classes is
mandatory.
Demonstration of the Coherence between the Teaching Methodologies and the Learning Outcomes:
The evidence that the teaching methods are adapted to the objectives proposed in this Course. stands out for the fact that. in each class, we start from an exposí,tory methodology of the legal, doctrinal and jurisprudential conceptualization of the syllabus, in which all the themes are explained of the program, to then make practical cases on the sub].ect in the classes, leading that in the end the student has achieved the knowledge, sl(ills and competences outlined.
Reading:
1. Códigos Tributários - Edição Universitária. Editora: Almedina, 20.ª Edição, Ano:
2021, ISBN: 9789724091082;
2. Jónatas E. M. Machado, Paulo Nogueira da Costa, Manual de Direito Fiscal -
Perspetiva multinível, Editora: Almedina, 3.Ê Edição, Editora -Almedina, Ano de 2019,
ISBN : 9789724081090;
3. Manuel Henrique de Freitas Pereira, Fiscalidade, Editora: Almedina, 6.ª Edição -
Reimpressão 2020, Editora -Almedina, ISBN: 9789724075563;
4. Casalta Nabais, J., Direito Fiscal, Editora: Almedina, 11.ª Edição - Reimpressão, Ano:
2021, ISBN: 9789724078755