diff --git a/concourse/tasks/vsce-publish.sh b/concourse/tasks/vsce-publish.sh
index bfe67ccb4..5e8edc312 100755
--- a/concourse/tasks/vsce-publish.sh
+++ b/concourse/tasks/vsce-publish.sh
@@ -26,5 +26,5 @@ echo "****************************************************************"
 cd $sources
 
 echo "Tagging release"
-git tag ${extension_id}-${release_version}-RELEASE
+git tag -f ${extension_id}-${release_version}-RELEASE
 git clone $workdir/sts4 $workdir/sts4-out