diff --git a/src/main/java/com/spotify/docker/RemoveImageMojo.java b/src/main/java/com/spotify/docker/RemoveImageMojo.java
index baf6a3f0..0e44fc82 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/spotify/docker/RemoveImageMojo.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/spotify/docker/RemoveImageMojo.java
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.Parameter;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 
 import static com.google.common.base.Strings.isNullOrEmpty;
@@ -51,20 +51,21 @@ public class RemoveImageMojo extends AbstractDockerMojo {
   private String imageName;
 
   /**
-   * Additional tags to tag the image with.
+   * Additional tags to remove.
    */
   @Parameter(property = "dockerImageTags")
   private List<String> imageTags;
 
   protected void execute(final DockerClient docker)
       throws MojoExecutionException, DockerException, IOException, InterruptedException {
-    final String imageNameWithoutTag = parseImageName(imageName)[0];
+    final String[] imageNameParts = parseImageName(imageName);
     if (imageTags == null) {
-      imageTags = Collections.singletonList("");
+      imageTags = new ArrayList<>(1);
     }
+    imageTags.add(imageNameParts[1]);
 
     for (final String imageTag : imageTags) {
-      final String currImageName = imageNameWithoutTag +
+      final String currImageName = imageNameParts[0] +
                              ((isNullOrEmpty(imageTag)) ? "" : (":" + imageTag));
       getLog().info("Removing -f " + currImageName);