Search for tags in Spotlight?

How come I can search using Tags in the Finder but not when trying to search using the new Spotlight in Yosemite?
Thank you.

You search it by typing tag:<tagname>
So I have a tag called "documentation" so I just type tag:documentation in the Spotlight field. Works great.
If you choose the "show all in finder" option you can see that it works fine.

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