diff --git a/docs/reference/pages/model_recipes.rst b/docs/reference/pages/model_recipes.rst
index bf199f2287..b8ddd63a42 100644
--- a/docs/reference/pages/model_recipes.rst
+++ b/docs/reference/pages/model_recipes.rst
@@ -155,11 +155,11 @@ Using an example from the Wagtail demo site, here's what the tag model and the r
 
     from modelcluster.fields import ParentalKey
     from modelcluster.contrib.taggit import ClusterTaggableManager
-    from taggit.models import Tag, TaggedItemBase
-    ...
+    from taggit.models import TaggedItemBase
+
     class BlogPageTag(TaggedItemBase):
         content_object = ParentalKey('demo.BlogPage', related_name='tagged_items')
-    ...
+
     class BlogPage(Page):
         ...
         tags = ClusterTaggableManager(through=BlogPageTag, blank=True)
diff --git a/docs/topics/snippets.rst b/docs/topics/snippets.rst
index 8e4defe79a..ddeb24ac31 100644
--- a/docs/topics/snippets.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/snippets.rst
@@ -197,3 +197,30 @@ If a snippet model inherits from ``wagtail.wagtailsearch.index.Indexed``, as des
       search_fields = [
           index.SearchField('text', partial_match=True),
       ]
+
+
+Tagging snippets
+----------------
+
+Adding tags to snippets is very similar to adding tags to pages. The only difference is that :class:`taggit.manager.TaggableManager` should be used in the place of :class:`~modelcluster.contrib.taggit.ClusterTaggableManager`.
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    from modelcluster.fields import ParentalKey
+    from taggit.models import TaggedItemBase
+    from taggit.managers import TaggableManager
+
+    class AdvertTag(TaggedItemBase):
+        content_object = ParentalKey('demo.Advert', related_name='tagged_items')
+
+    @register_snippet
+    class Advert(models.Model):
+        ...
+        tags = TaggableManager(through=BlogPageTag, blank=True)
+
+        panels = [
+            ...
+            FieldPanel('tags'),
+        ]
+
+The :ref:`documentation on tagging pages <tagging>` has more information on how to use tags in views.
diff --git a/wagtail/tests/testapp/migrations/0007_auto_20150820_0419.py b/wagtail/tests/testapp/migrations/0007_auto_20150820_0419.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c843b42dc9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/wagtail/tests/testapp/migrations/0007_auto_20150820_0419.py
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from django.db import models, migrations
+import taggit.managers
+import modelcluster.fields
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    dependencies = [
+        ('taggit', '0001_initial'),
+        ('tests', '0006_image_file_size'),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.CreateModel(
+            name='AdvertTag',
+            fields=[
+                ('id', models.AutoField(verbose_name='ID', serialize=False, auto_created=True, primary_key=True)),
+                ('content_object', modelcluster.fields.ParentalKey(related_name='tagged_items', to='tests.Advert')),
+                ('tag', models.ForeignKey(related_name='tests_adverttag_items', to='taggit.Tag')),
+            ],
+            options={
+                'abstract': False,
+            },
+        ),
+        migrations.AddField(
+            model_name='advert',
+            name='tags',
+            field=taggit.managers.TaggableManager(to='taggit.Tag', through='tests.AdvertTag', blank=True, help_text='A comma-separated list of tags.', verbose_name='Tags'),
+        ),
+    ]
diff --git a/wagtail/tests/testapp/models.py b/wagtail/tests/testapp/models.py
index 76e38fefdd..c2334dca21 100644
--- a/wagtail/tests/testapp/models.py
+++ b/wagtail/tests/testapp/models.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ from django.core.paginator import Paginator, EmptyPage, PageNotAnInteger
 from django.utils.encoding import python_2_unicode_compatible
 
 from taggit.models import TaggedItemBase
+from taggit.managers import TaggableManager
 
 from modelcluster.fields import ParentalKey
 from modelcluster.contrib.taggit import ClusterTaggableManager
@@ -313,14 +314,22 @@ class AdvertPlacement(models.Model):
     advert = models.ForeignKey('tests.Advert', related_name='+')
     colour = models.CharField(max_length=255)
 
+
+class AdvertTag(TaggedItemBase):
+    content_object = ParentalKey('Advert', related_name='tagged_items')
+
+
 @python_2_unicode_compatible
 class Advert(models.Model):
     url = models.URLField(null=True, blank=True)
     text = models.CharField(max_length=255)
 
+    tags = TaggableManager(through=AdvertTag, blank=True)
+
     panels = [
         FieldPanel('url'),
         FieldPanel('text'),
+        FieldPanel('tags'),
     ]
 
     def __str__(self):
diff --git a/wagtail/wagtailsnippets/tests.py b/wagtail/wagtailsnippets/tests.py
index 6625ce2955..f551d12e8a 100644
--- a/wagtail/wagtailsnippets/tests.py
+++ b/wagtail/wagtailsnippets/tests.py
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
 from django.contrib.auth.models import Permission
 from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
 
+from taggit.models import Tag
+
 from wagtail.tests.utils import WagtailTestUtils
 from wagtail.tests.testapp.models import Advert, SnippetChooserModel
 from wagtail.tests.snippets.models import AlphaSnippet, ZuluSnippet, RegisterDecorator, RegisterFunction, SearchableSnippet
@@ -142,6 +144,20 @@ class TestSnippetCreateView(TestCase, WagtailTestUtils):
         self.assertEqual(snippets.count(), 1)
         self.assertEqual(snippets.first().url, 'http://www.example.com/')
 
+    def test_create_with_tags(self):
+        tags = ['hello', 'world']
+        response = self.post(post_data={'text': 'test_advert',
+                                        'url': 'http://example.com/',
+                                        'tags': ', '.join(tags)})
+
+        self.assertRedirects(response, reverse('wagtailsnippets:list',
+                                               args=('tests', 'advert')))
+
+        snippet = Advert.objects.get(text='test_advert')
+        self.assertEqual(
+            list(snippet.tags.order_by('name')),
+            list(Tag.objects.order_by('name').filter(name__in=tags)))
+
 
 class TestSnippetEditView(TestCase, WagtailTestUtils):
     fixtures = ['test.json']
@@ -187,6 +203,20 @@ class TestSnippetEditView(TestCase, WagtailTestUtils):
         self.assertEqual(snippets.count(), 1)
         self.assertEqual(snippets.first().url, 'http://www.example.com/edited')
 
+    def test_edit_with_tags(self):
+        tags = ['hello', 'world']
+        response = self.post(post_data={'text': 'edited_test_advert',
+                                        'url': 'http://www.example.com/edited',
+                                        'tags': ', '.join(tags)})
+
+        self.assertRedirects(response, reverse('wagtailsnippets:list',
+                                               args=('tests', 'advert')))
+
+        snippet = Advert.objects.get(text='edited_test_advert')
+        self.assertEqual(
+            list(snippet.tags.order_by('name')),
+            list(Tag.objects.order_by('name').filter(name__in=tags)))
+
 
 class TestSnippetDelete(TestCase, WagtailTestUtils):
     fixtures = ['test.json']