diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 736d0a6fc..b13f74bad 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -205,3 +205,4 @@ suggestions:
   jck
   Michele Vetturi
   Jeremiah Marks
+  Profpatsch
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 08f56d116..c66a1f8bb 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -9,14 +9,13 @@ Features
 - TW-255 'Mask' instead of 'iMask' shown in info report (thanks to Benjamin
          Weber)
 - TW-261 Easy to create "not deletable" task (thanks to Jan Kunder).
-- TW-278 Cygwin throws warnings building mk_wcwidth() in wcwidth6.c.
 - TW-1255 New testing framework (thanks to Renato Alves).
 - TW-1258 Portuguese Localization (thanks to Renato Alves).
 - TW-1260 New virtual tags YESTERDAY, TOMORROW.
 - TW-1261 Migrate test bug.360.t to new unit testing framework (thanks to
           Renato Alves).
 - TW-1274 Map 'modification' attribute to 'modified' (thanks to jck).
-- TW-1302 CmdShow.cpp:244: bad length in substr ? (thanks to David Binderman).
+- TW-1301 Virtual tag +PENDING (thanks to Profpatsch).
 - Removed deprecated 'echo.command' setting, in favor of the 'header' and
   'affected' verbosity tokens.
 - Removed deprecated 'edit.verbose' setting, in favor of the 'edit' verbosity
@@ -35,6 +34,7 @@ Bugs
 - TD-42 Cannot compile taskd - GNUTLS_VERSION undefined in diag.cpp (thanks
         to Michele Vetturi).
 - TD-45 Fix preprocessor define (thanks to Jochen Sprickerhof).
+- TW-278 Cygwin throws warnings building mk_wcwidth() in wcwidth6.c.
 - TW-1254 Calc command can segfault on negative numbers (thanks to Renato
           Alves).
 - TW-1282 incorrect URLs in man task-sync (thanks to Jeremiah Marks).
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ Bugs
           Wilk).
 - TW-1296 make test/run_all exit with non-zero code if a test fail (thanks to
           Jakub Wilk).
+- TW-1302 CmdShow.cpp:244: bad length in substr ? (thanks to David Binderman).
 - #1511 sync init crashes if client certification file is empty or invalid
         (thanks to Marton Suranyi).
 - #1508 Show command highlight configuration (thanks to Nicolas Appriou).
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 197b9f9d5..262440ccf 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ New Features in taskwarrior 2.4.0
   - Removed deprecated commands 'push', 'pull' and 'merge'.
   - Portuguese (por-PRT) localization.
   - Better handling for deletion of recurring tasks.
-  - New virtual tags: YESTERDAY, TOMORROW, READY.
+  - New virtual tags: YESTERDAY, TOMORROW, READY, PENDING, COMPLETED, DELETED.
 
 New commands in taskwarrior 2.4.0
 
diff --git a/doc/man/task.1.in b/doc/man/task.1.in
index c7840819d..42c26ea09 100644
--- a/doc/man/task.1.in
+++ b/doc/man/task.1.in
@@ -588,6 +588,9 @@ are:
     UNTIL        Matches if the task expires
     WAITING      Matches if the task is waiting
     ANNOTATED    Matches if the task has annotations
+    PENDING      Matches if the task has pending status
+    COMPLETED    Matches if the task has completed status
+    DELETED      Matches if the task has deleted status
 
 You can use +BLOCKED to filter blocked tasks, or -BLOCKED for unblocked tasks.
 Similarly, -BLOCKED is equivalent to +UNBLOCKED.
diff --git a/src/Task.cpp b/src/Task.cpp
index 27149e258..8bee7d291 100644
--- a/src/Task.cpp
+++ b/src/Task.cpp
@@ -1169,6 +1169,9 @@ bool Task::hasTag (const std::string& tag) const
   if (tag == "WAITING")   return has ("wait");
   if (tag == "ANNOTATED") return hasAnnotations ();
   if (tag == "PARENT")    return has ("mask");
+  if (tag == "PENDING")   return get ("status") == "pending";
+  if (tag == "COMPLETED") return get ("status") == "completed";
+  if (tag == "DELETED")   return get ("status") == "deleted";
 
   // Concrete tags.
   std::vector <std::string> tags;