diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/74144-remove-include-vartags.yml b/changelogs/fragments/74144-remove-include-vartags.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..116de9183f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/74144-remove-include-vartags.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+bugfixes:
+- includes - Remove the deprecated ability to specify ``tags`` as ``vars`` on includes
+  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/74144)
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/strategy/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/strategy/__init__.py
index 1bfe04e47cf..90f7cbc19d7 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/strategy/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/strategy/__init__.py
@@ -922,20 +922,6 @@ class StrategyBase:
                 raise AnsibleError("included task files must contain a list of tasks")
 
             ti_copy = self._copy_included_file(included_file)
-            # pop tags out of the include args, if they were specified there, and assign
-            # them to the include. If the include already had tags specified, we raise an
-            # error so that users know not to specify them both ways
-            tags = included_file._task.vars.pop('tags', [])
-            if isinstance(tags, string_types):
-                tags = tags.split(',')
-            if len(tags) > 0:
-                if len(included_file._task.tags) > 0:
-                    raise AnsibleParserError("Include tasks should not specify tags in more than one way (both via args and directly on the task). "
-                                             "Mixing tag specify styles is prohibited for whole import hierarchy, not only for single import statement",
-                                             obj=included_file._task._ds)
-                display.deprecated("You should not specify tags in the include parameters. All tags should be specified using the task-level option",
-                                   version='2.12', collection_name='ansible.builtin')
-                included_file._task.tags = tags
 
             block_list = load_list_of_blocks(
                 data,
diff --git a/test/sanity/ignore.txt b/test/sanity/ignore.txt
index 9119a2316da..baaed595d0c 100644
--- a/test/sanity/ignore.txt
+++ b/test/sanity/ignore.txt
@@ -123,7 +123,6 @@ lib/ansible/plugins/action/normal.py action-plugin-docs # default action plugin
 lib/ansible/plugins/cache/base.py ansible-doc!skip  # not a plugin, but a stub for backwards compatibility
 lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/script.py pylint:ansible-deprecated-version
 lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/sequence.py pylint:blacklisted-name
-lib/ansible/plugins/strategy/__init__.py pylint:ansible-deprecated-version
 lib/ansible/plugins/strategy/__init__.py pylint:blacklisted-name
 lib/ansible/plugins/strategy/linear.py pylint:blacklisted-name
 lib/ansible/vars/hostvars.py pylint:blacklisted-name