Depending on some other details, you may have to use javascript. I have run into this a few times. It is the reason that seach by field contents doesn't work correctly
here. Since it is a project I am working on I will hopefully make a fix for it at some point, but that may take a long time.
If you are lucky changing the filter to
[<currentTiddler>tagging[]unique[]]
may work, but it doesn't sound like that will be enough in your situation.