diff --git a/backend/src/services/extractors/engines/EmailMessage.ts b/backend/src/services/extractors/engines/EmailMessage.ts
index 451c13d31..935ef6584 100644
--- a/backend/src/services/extractors/engines/EmailMessage.ts
+++ b/backend/src/services/extractors/engines/EmailMessage.ts
@@ -333,12 +333,14 @@ export default class EmailMessage {
             field: validContact.sourceField
           });
 
-          // Eliminate unwanted contacts associated with tags listed in IGNORED_MESSAGE_TAGS
-          if (
-            tags.some((t) => EmailMessage.IGNORED_MESSAGE_TAGS.includes(t.name))
-          ) {
-            return;
-          }
+          // TODO: [BUG] Re-enable once refine process properly handles transactional tag
+          // Previously this filtered out contacts from transactional emails, but it caused
+          // transactional-tagged contacts to be missing from the refined table.
+          // if (
+          //   tags.some((t) => EmailMessage.IGNORED_MESSAGE_TAGS.includes(t.name))
+          // ) {
+          //   return;
+          // }
 
           if (tags.some((t) => t.reachable === REACHABILITY.DIRECT_PERSON)) {
             if (
diff --git a/backend/test/unit/emailMessage.test.ts b/backend/test/unit/emailMessage.test.ts
index 50104234e..44c8393e8 100644
--- a/backend/test/unit/emailMessage.test.ts
+++ b/backend/test/unit/emailMessage.test.ts
@@ -350,6 +350,35 @@ describe('Email Message', () => {
               reachable: REACHABILITY.DIRECT_PERSON
             }
           ]
+        },
+        {
+          person: {
+            name: 'test',
+            email: 'invalid@leadminer.io',
+            identifiers: ['invalid'],
+            source: 'miningSource@leadminer.io'
+          },
+          pointOfContact: {
+            name: 'test',
+            to: false,
+            cc: false,
+            bcc: false,
+            body: false,
+            from: true,
+            replyTo: false
+          },
+          tags: [
+            {
+              name: 'transactional',
+              source: 'refined#message_header',
+              reachable: 3
+            },
+            {
+              name: 'no-reply',
+              source: 'refined#email_address',
+              reachable: 3
+            }
+          ]
         }
       ];
       const contacts = await message.getContacts();