diff --git a/android/filegroup.go b/android/filegroup.go
index af4d89a51..d21d146f4 100644
--- a/android/filegroup.go
+++ b/android/filegroup.go
@@ -122,16 +122,18 @@ func (fg *fileGroup) ConvertWithBp2build(ctx TopDownMutatorContext) {
 		if fg.ShouldConvertToProtoLibrary(ctx) {
 			// TODO(b/246997908): we can remove this tag if we could figure out a
 			// solution for this bug.
-			tags := []string{"manual"}
 			attrs := &ProtoAttrs{
 				Srcs:                srcs,
 				Strip_import_prefix: fg.properties.Path,
-				Tags:                tags,
 			}
 
+			tags := []string{"manual"}
 			ctx.CreateBazelTargetModule(
 				bazel.BazelTargetModuleProperties{Rule_class: "proto_library"},
-				CommonAttributes{Name: fg.Name() + convertedProtoLibrarySuffix},
+				CommonAttributes{
+					Name: fg.Name() + convertedProtoLibrarySuffix,
+					Tags: bazel.MakeStringListAttribute(tags),
+				},
 				attrs)
 		}
 
diff --git a/android/proto.go b/android/proto.go
index 3cac9a185..8204f77ec 100644
--- a/android/proto.go
+++ b/android/proto.go
@@ -164,7 +164,6 @@ type ProtoAttrs struct {
 	Srcs                bazel.LabelListAttribute
 	Strip_import_prefix *string
 	Deps                bazel.LabelListAttribute
-	Tags                []string
 }
 
 // For each package in the include_dirs property a proto_library target should