diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 909eb7f..91b6d99 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -305,6 +305,7 @@ Available targets:
 | <a name="input_stage"></a> [stage](#input\_stage) | ID element. Usually used to indicate role, e.g. 'prod', 'staging', 'source', 'build', 'test', 'deploy', 'release' | `string` | `null` | no |
 | <a name="input_stream_view_type"></a> [stream\_view\_type](#input\_stream\_view\_type) | When an item in the table is modified, what information is written to the stream | `string` | `""` | no |
 | <a name="input_tags"></a> [tags](#input\_tags) | Additional tags (e.g. `{'BusinessUnit': 'XYZ'}`).<br>Neither the tag keys nor the tag values will be modified by this module. | `map(string)` | `{}` | no |
+| <a name="input_tags_enabled"></a> [tags\_enabled](#input\_tags\_enabled) | Set to `false` to disable tagging. This can be helpful if you're managing tables on dynamodb-local with terraform as it doesn't support tagging. | `bool` | `true` | no |
 | <a name="input_tenant"></a> [tenant](#input\_tenant) | ID element \_(Rarely used, not included by default)\_. A customer identifier, indicating who this instance of a resource is for | `string` | `null` | no |
 | <a name="input_ttl_attribute"></a> [ttl\_attribute](#input\_ttl\_attribute) | DynamoDB table TTL attribute | `string` | `"Expires"` | no |
 | <a name="input_ttl_enabled"></a> [ttl\_enabled](#input\_ttl\_enabled) | Set to false to disable DynamoDB table TTL | `bool` | `true` | no |
diff --git a/docs/terraform.md b/docs/terraform.md
index 9329927..21bdc0d 100644
--- a/docs/terraform.md
+++ b/docs/terraform.md
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@
 | <a name="input_stage"></a> [stage](#input\_stage) | ID element. Usually used to indicate role, e.g. 'prod', 'staging', 'source', 'build', 'test', 'deploy', 'release' | `string` | `null` | no |
 | <a name="input_stream_view_type"></a> [stream\_view\_type](#input\_stream\_view\_type) | When an item in the table is modified, what information is written to the stream | `string` | `""` | no |
 | <a name="input_tags"></a> [tags](#input\_tags) | Additional tags (e.g. `{'BusinessUnit': 'XYZ'}`).<br>Neither the tag keys nor the tag values will be modified by this module. | `map(string)` | `{}` | no |
+| <a name="input_tags_enabled"></a> [tags\_enabled](#input\_tags\_enabled) | Set to `false` to disable tagging. This can be helpful if you're managing tables on dynamodb-local with terraform as it doesn't support tagging. | `bool` | `true` | no |
 | <a name="input_tenant"></a> [tenant](#input\_tenant) | ID element \_(Rarely used, not included by default)\_. A customer identifier, indicating who this instance of a resource is for | `string` | `null` | no |
 | <a name="input_ttl_attribute"></a> [ttl\_attribute](#input\_ttl\_attribute) | DynamoDB table TTL attribute | `string` | `"Expires"` | no |
 | <a name="input_ttl_enabled"></a> [ttl\_enabled](#input\_ttl\_enabled) | Set to false to disable DynamoDB table TTL | `bool` | `true` | no |
diff --git a/main.tf b/main.tf
index fbf31bc..df266f4 100644
--- a/main.tf
+++ b/main.tf
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ resource "aws_dynamodb_table" "default" {
     }
   }
 
-  tags = module.this.tags
+  tags = var.tags_enabled ? module.this.tags : null
 }
 
 module "dynamodb_autoscaler" {
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ module "dynamodb_autoscaler" {
   enabled = local.enabled && var.enable_autoscaler && var.billing_mode == "PROVISIONED"
 
   attributes                   = concat(module.this.attributes, var.autoscaler_attributes)
-  tags                         = merge(module.this.tags, var.autoscaler_tags)
+  tags                         = var.tags_enabled ? merge(module.this.tags, var.autoscaler_tags) : null
   dynamodb_table_name          = join("", aws_dynamodb_table.default.*.id)
   dynamodb_table_arn           = join("", aws_dynamodb_table.default.*.arn)
   dynamodb_indexes             = null_resource.global_secondary_index_names.*.triggers.name
diff --git a/variables.tf b/variables.tf
index f186a5d..b85355f 100644
--- a/variables.tf
+++ b/variables.tf
@@ -162,3 +162,9 @@ variable "replicas" {
   default     = []
   description = "List of regions to create replica"
 }
+
+variable "tags_enabled" {
+  type        = bool
+  default     = true
+  description = "Set to `false` to disable tagging. This can be helpful if you're managing tables on dynamodb-local with terraform as it doesn't support tagging."
+}