diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ee3ca1049..79a9b8296 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 - TW-1425 The 'age' format rounds in odd ways (thanks to Black Ops testing).
 - TW-1446 Difference in how relative dates are specified in report filters since 2.3.0
           (thanks to atomicules).
+- TW-1481 Unable to assign a completed task as dependency (thanks to Tomas
+          Babej).
 - TW-1500 Dates formatted as ".age", ".remaining", or ".countdown" often give
           blank results (thanks to Jeremy John Reeder).
 - TW-1582 Wrong urgency for first report after reviving task with
diff --git a/src/Task.cpp b/src/Task.cpp
index b767531ea..aac66b0ff 100644
--- a/src/Task.cpp
+++ b/src/Task.cpp
@@ -2031,14 +2031,14 @@ void Task::modify (modType type, bool text_required /* = false */)
               if (dep[0] == '-')
               {
                 if (dep.length () == 37)
-                  removeDependency (context.tdb2.pending.id (dep.substr (1)));
+                  removeDependency (dep.substr (1));
                 else
                   removeDependency (strtol (dep.substr (1).c_str (), NULL, 10));
               }
               else
               {
                 if (dep.length () == 36)
-                  addDependency (context.tdb2.pending.id (dep));
+                  addDependency (dep);
                 else
                   addDependency (strtol (dep.c_str (), NULL, 10));
               }
diff --git a/test/dependencies.t b/test/dependencies.t
index 1b26f3e04..fb83b682b 100755
--- a/test/dependencies.t
+++ b/test/dependencies.t
@@ -306,7 +306,6 @@ class Test1481(TestCase):
         self.child1_uuid = self.t.export_one(2)['uuid']
         self.child2_uuid = self.t.export_one(3)['uuid']
 
-    @unittest.expectedFailure
     def test_set_dependency_on_first_completed_task(self):
         """1481: Sets dependency on task which has been just completed."""
         self.t('2 done')
@@ -317,7 +316,6 @@ class Test1481(TestCase):
         # Set the dependency
         self.t('1 modify depends:%s' % self.child1_uuid)
 
-    @unittest.expectedFailure
     def test_set_dependency_on_second_completed_task(self):
         """
         1481: Sets dependency on task which has been completed
@@ -333,7 +331,6 @@ class Test1481(TestCase):
         # Set the dependencies
         self.t('1 modify depends:%s' % self.child2_uuid)
 
-    @unittest.expectedFailure
     def test_set_dependency_on_two_completed_tasks(self):
         """ 1481: Sets dependency on two most recent completed tasks. """
         self.t('2 done')