diff --git a/templates/SilverStripe/Control/Email/Email.ss b/templates/SilverStripe/Control/Email/Email.ss
index d69591afeef..8f455e247ab 100644
--- a/templates/SilverStripe/Control/Email/Email.ss
+++ b/templates/SilverStripe/Control/Email/Email.ss
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
 <html>
 <head>
-	<% base_tag %>
 </head>
 <body>
 
