diff --git a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/javadoc/HtmlTag.java b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/javadoc/HtmlTag.java
index b83f997d5..75f83b8ca 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/javadoc/HtmlTag.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/javadoc/HtmlTag.java
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ class HtmlTag {
         this.position = position;
         this.text = text;
         this.closedTag = closedTag;
-        this.incompleteTag = incomplete;
+        incompleteTag = incomplete;
     }
 
     /**