diff -r 26998dc980f9 -r 10305c5b0a16 dav/sync.c
--- a/dav/sync.c	Wed May 30 16:06:03 2018 +0200
+++ b/dav/sync.c	Wed May 30 16:25:57 2018 +0200
@@ -255,6 +255,19 @@
     return 1;
 }
 
+SyncTagFilter* parse_tagfilter_string(const char* filterstring) {
+    if (!filterstring) {
+        return NULL;
+    }
+    
+    SyncTagFilter* tagfilter = malloc(sizeof(SyncTagFilter));
+    tagfilter->mode = DAV_SYNC_TAGFILTER_AND;
+    tagfilter->subfilter_count = 0;
+    tagfilter->tags = parse_csv_taglist(filterstring, strlen(filterstring));
+    
+    return tagfilter;
+}
+
 static int matches_tags_and(UcxList *dav_tags, UcxList *tags, int ignorecase) {
     UCX_FOREACH(e, tags) {
         if (!ucx_list_contains(dav_tags, e->data,
@@ -519,16 +532,8 @@
                 continue;
             }
             
-            // TODO: remove this fake and let the cmd parser store the filter
-            SyncTagFilter tagfilter;
-            tagfilter.mode = DAV_SYNC_TAGFILTER_AND;
-            tagfilter.subfilter_count = 0;
-            tagfilter.tags = NULL;
-            char *tags_str = cmd_getoption(a, "tags");
-            if(tags_str) {
-                tagfilter.tags = parse_csv_taglist(tags_str, strlen(tags_str));
-            }
-            if (!res_matches_tags(res, &tagfilter)) {
+            if (!res_matches_tags(res,
+                    parse_tagfilter_string(cmd_getoption(a, "tags")))) {
                 if(!cmd_getoption(a, "remove")) {
                     localres_keep(db, res->path);
                 }