diff --git a/spacy/tests/serialize/test_serialize_tagger.py b/spacy/tests/serialize/test_serialize_tagger.py
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+# coding: utf-8
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from ..util import make_tempdir
+from ...pipeline import NeuralTagger as Tagger
+
+import pytest
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def taggers(en_vocab):
+    tagger1 = Tagger(en_vocab, True)
+    tagger2 = Tagger(en_vocab, True)
+    tagger1.model = tagger1.Model(None, None)
+    tagger2.model = tagger2.Model(None, None)
+    return (tagger1, tagger2)
+
+
+def test_serialize_tagger_roundtrip_bytes(en_vocab, taggers):
+    tagger1, tagger2 = taggers
+    tagger1_b = tagger1.to_bytes()
+    tagger2_b = tagger2.to_bytes()
+    assert tagger1_b == tagger2_b
+    tagger1 = tagger1.from_bytes(tagger1_b)
+    assert tagger1.to_bytes() == tagger1_b
+    new_tagger1 = Tagger(en_vocab).from_bytes(tagger1_b)
+    assert new_tagger1.to_bytes() == tagger1_b
+
+
+def test_serialize_tagger_roundtrip_disk(en_vocab, taggers):
+    tagger1, tagger2 = taggers
+    with make_tempdir() as d:
+        file_path1 = d / 'tagger1'
+        file_path2 = d / 'tagger2'
+        tagger1.to_disk(file_path1)
+        tagger2.to_disk(file_path2)
+        tagger1_d = Tagger(en_vocab).from_disk(file_path1)
+        tagger2_d = Tagger(en_vocab).from_disk(file_path2)
+        assert tagger1_d.to_bytes() == tagger2_d.to_bytes()