diff --git a/spec/search/search.spec.js b/spec/search/search.spec.js
index 795c4f7f2c..35da251505 100644
--- a/spec/search/search.spec.js
+++ b/spec/search/search.spec.js
@@ -157,6 +157,21 @@ describe("Search", () => {
         expect(findNoteByTitle(searchResults, "Czech Republic")).toBeTruthy();
     });
 
+    it("inherited label comparison", () => {
+        rootNote
+            .child(note("Europe")
+                .label('country', '', true)
+                .child(note("Austria"))
+                .child(note("Czech Republic"))
+            );
+
+        const searchContext = new SearchContext();
+
+        const searchResults = searchService.findResultsWithQuery('austria #country', searchContext);
+        expect(searchResults.length).toEqual(1);
+        expect(findNoteByTitle(searchResults, "Austria")).toBeTruthy();
+    });
+
     it("numeric label comparison fallback to string comparison", () => {
         // dates should not be coerced into numbers which would then give wrong numbers
 
diff --git a/src/services/search/expressions/attribute_exists.js b/src/services/search/expressions/attribute_exists.js
index b72c2d69b1..f28185ebcc 100644
--- a/src/services/search/expressions/attribute_exists.js
+++ b/src/services/search/expressions/attribute_exists.js
@@ -23,20 +23,18 @@ class AttributeExistsExp extends Expression {
         for (const attr of attrs) {
             const note = attr.note;
 
-            if (inputNoteSet.hasNoteId(note.noteId)) {
-                if (attr.isInheritable) {
-                    resultNoteSet.addAll(note.getSubtreeNotesIncludingTemplated());
-                }
-                else if (note.isTemplate()) {
-                    resultNoteSet.addAll(note.getTemplatedNotes());
-                }
-                else {
-                    resultNoteSet.add(note);
-                }
+            if (attr.isInheritable) {
+                resultNoteSet.addAll(note.getSubtreeNotesIncludingTemplated());
+            }
+            else if (note.isTemplate()) {
+                resultNoteSet.addAll(note.getTemplatedNotes());
+            }
+            else {
+                resultNoteSet.add(note);
             }
         }
 
-        return resultNoteSet;
+        return resultNoteSet.intersection(inputNoteSet);
     }
 }