diff --git a/scripts/tags.sh b/scripts/tags.sh
index 028dc5ca857d..833813a99e7c 100755
--- a/scripts/tags.sh
+++ b/scripts/tags.sh
@@ -167,6 +167,8 @@ exuberant()
 	--langdef=dotconfig --language-force=dotconfig          \
 	--regex-dotconfig='/^#?[[:blank:]]*(CONFIG_[[:alnum:]_]+)/\1/'
 
+	# Remove structure forward declarations.
+	LANG=C sed -i -e '/^\([a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*\)\t.*\t\/\^struct \1;.*\$\/;"\tx$/d' tags
 }
 
 emacs()