diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/fix-tags-pkg.md b/changelog/unreleased/fix-tags-pkg.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..af1946bfd53
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/fix-tags-pkg.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Enhancement: Fix tag pkg
+
+`tags` pkg needed an option to build the tags struct from a slice of tags. Here it is
+
+https://github.com/cs3org/reva/pull/3564
diff --git a/pkg/tags/tags.go b/pkg/tags/tags.go
index c6bb765d5c7..2a9a4eb08e9 100644
--- a/pkg/tags/tags.go
+++ b/pkg/tags/tags.go
@@ -39,18 +39,22 @@ type Tags struct {
 	numtags int
 }
 
-// FromList creates a Tags struct from a list of tags
-func FromList(s string) *Tags {
-	t := &Tags{sep: _tagsep, maxtags: _maxtags, exists: make(map[string]bool)}
-	t.t = t.addTags(s)
+// New creates a Tag struct from a slice of tags, e.g. ["tag1", "tag2"] or a list of tags, e.g. "tag1,tag2"
+func New(ts ...string) *Tags {
+	t := &Tags{sep: _tagsep, maxtags: _maxtags, exists: make(map[string]bool), t: make([]string, 0)}
+	for i := len(ts) - 1; i >= 0; i-- {
+		t.addTags(ts[i])
+	}
 	return t
 }
 
 // AddList appends a list of new tags and returns true if at least one was appended
-func (t *Tags) AddList(s string) bool {
-	tags := t.addTags(s)
-	t.t = append(tags, t.t...)
-	return len(tags) > 0
+func (t *Tags) AddList(s ...string) bool {
+	var added []string
+	for _, tt := range s {
+		added = append(added, t.addTags(tt)...)
+	}
+	return len(added) > 0
 }
 
 // RemoveList removes a list of tags and returns true if at least one was removed
@@ -108,5 +112,6 @@ func (t *Tags) addTags(s string) []string {
 		t.numtags++
 	}
 
+	t.t = append(added, t.t...)
 	return added
 }
diff --git a/pkg/tags/tags_test.go b/pkg/tags/tags_test.go
index 0e91eef485f..2f85e606078 100644
--- a/pkg/tags/tags_test.go
+++ b/pkg/tags/tags_test.go
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ func TestAddTags(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	for _, tc := range testCases {
-		ts := FromList(tc.InitialTags)
+		ts := New(tc.InitialTags)
 		ts.maxtags = 10
 
 		added := ts.AddList(tc.TagsToAdd)
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ func TestRemoveTags(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	for _, tc := range testCases {
-		ts := FromList(tc.InitialTags)
+		ts := New(tc.InitialTags)
 
 		removed := ts.RemoveList(tc.TagsToRemove)
 		require.Equal(t, tc.ExpectNoTagsRemoved, !removed, tc.Alias)
@@ -179,3 +179,30 @@ func TestRemoveTags(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 }
+
+func TestBuilders(t *testing.T) {
+	testCases := []struct {
+		Alias string
+		List  string
+		Slice []string
+	}{
+		{
+			Alias: "simple",
+			List:  "a,b,c",
+			Slice: []string{"a", "b", "c"},
+		},
+		{
+			Alias: "zero values",
+			List:  "",
+			Slice: nil,
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tc := range testCases {
+		list := New(tc.List)
+		slice := New(tc.Slice...)
+
+		require.Equal(t, list.AsSlice(), slice.AsSlice())
+		require.Equal(t, list.AsList(), slice.AsList())
+	}
+}