diff --git a/examples/demo-tagging.html b/examples/demo-tagging.html
index b2cc6cf7ad..fa732f920c 100644
--- a/examples/demo-tagging.html
+++ b/examples/demo-tagging.html
@@ -116,6 +116,21 @@ <h3>Object Tags with Tokenization (Space, Forward Slash, Comma)</h3>
   </ui-select>
   <p>Selected: {{multipleDemo.selectedPeople2}}</p>
 
+  <h3>Tagging without multiple</h3>
+  <ui-select tagging="tagTransform" ng-model="person.selected" on-select="addPerson($item, $model)" theme="bootstrap" ng-disabled="disabled" style="width: 800px;" title="Choose a person">
+  <ui-select-match placeholder="Select person...">{{$select.selected.name}} &lt;{{$select.selected.email}}&gt;</ui-select-match>
+  <ui-select-choices repeat="person in people | propsFilter: {name: $select.search, age: $select.search}">
+    <div ng-if="person.isTag" ng-bind-html="person.name +' <small>(new)</small>'| highlight: $select.search"></div>
+    <div ng-if="!person.isTag" ng-bind-html="person.name + person.isTag| highlight: $select.search"></div>
+    <small>
+      email: {{person.email}}
+      age: <span ng-bind-html="''+person.age | highlight: $select.search"></span>
+    </small>
+  </ui-select-choices>
+  </ui-select>
+  <p>Selected: {{person.selected}}</p>
+
+
   <div style="height:500px"></div>
 
 </body>
diff --git a/examples/demo.js b/examples/demo.js
index 96fe294fb0..6fa1403465 100644
--- a/examples/demo.js
+++ b/examples/demo.js
@@ -153,6 +153,13 @@ app.controller('DemoCtrl', function($scope, $http, $timeout) {
     });
   };
 
+  $scope.addPerson = function(item, model){
+    if(item.hasOwnProperty('isTag')) {
+      delete item.isTag;
+      $scope.people.push(item);
+    }
+  }
+
   $scope.country = {};
   $scope.countries = [ // Taken from https://gist.github.com/unceus/6501985
     {name: 'Afghanistan', code: 'AF'},
diff --git a/src/select.js b/src/select.js
index 1bf42b0978..400dc63477 100644
--- a/src/select.js
+++ b/src/select.js
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@
               }
             }
             // search ctrl.selected for dupes potentially caused by tagging and return early if found
-            if ( ctrl.selected && ctrl.selected.filter( function (selection) { return angular.equals(selection, item); }).length > 0 ) {
+            if ( ctrl.selected && angular.isArray(ctrl.selected) && ctrl.selected.filter( function (selection) { return angular.equals(selection, item); }).length > 0 ) {
               ctrl.close(skipFocusser);
               return;
             }
@@ -837,24 +837,26 @@
     }
 
     function _findApproxDupe(haystack, needle) {
-      var tempArr = angular.copy(haystack);
       var dupeIndex = -1;
-      for (var i = 0; i <tempArr.length; i++) {
-        // handle the simple string version of tagging
-        if ( ctrl.tagging.fct === undefined ) {
-          // search the array for the match
-          if ( tempArr[i]+' '+ctrl.taggingLabel === needle ) {
-            dupeIndex = i;
-          }
-        // handle the object tagging implementation
-        } else {
-          var mockObj = tempArr[i];
-          mockObj.isTag = true;
-          if ( angular.equals(mockObj, needle) ) {
-            dupeIndex = i;
-          }
-        }
-      }
+	  if(angular.isArray(haystack)) {
+		  var tempArr = angular.copy(haystack);
+		  for (var i = 0; i <tempArr.length; i++) {
+			// handle the simple string version of tagging
+			if ( ctrl.tagging.fct === undefined ) {
+			  // search the array for the match
+			  if ( tempArr[i]+' '+ctrl.taggingLabel === needle ) {
+				dupeIndex = i;
+			  }
+			// handle the object tagging implementation
+			} else {
+			  var mockObj = tempArr[i];
+			  mockObj.isTag = true;
+			  if ( angular.equals(mockObj, needle) ) {
+				dupeIndex = i;
+			  }
+			}
+		  }
+	  }
       return dupeIndex;
     }