diff --git a/packages/react-native-renderer/src/ReactFabricRenderer.js b/packages/react-native-renderer/src/ReactFabricRenderer.js
index b19fd3f46a6f6..007c3772e5807 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-renderer/src/ReactFabricRenderer.js
+++ b/packages/react-native-renderer/src/ReactFabricRenderer.js
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ import * as ReactNativeAttributePayload from './ReactNativeAttributePayload';
 import * as ReactNativeFrameScheduling from './ReactNativeFrameScheduling';
 import * as ReactNativeViewConfigRegistry from './ReactNativeViewConfigRegistry';
 import ReactFiberReconciler from 'react-reconciler';
-import ReactNativeTagHandles from './ReactNativeTagHandles';
 
 import deepFreezeAndThrowOnMutationInDev from 'deepFreezeAndThrowOnMutationInDev';
 import emptyObject from 'fbjs/lib/emptyObject';
@@ -30,6 +29,12 @@ import TextInputState from 'TextInputState';
 import FabricUIManager from 'FabricUIManager';
 import UIManager from 'UIManager';
 
+// Counter for uniquely identifying views.
+// % 10 === 1 means it is a rootTag.
+// % 2 === 0 means it is a Fabric tag.
+// This means that they never overlap.
+let nextReactTag = 2;
+
 /**
  * This is used for refs on host components.
  */
@@ -133,7 +138,9 @@ const ReactFabricRenderer = ReactFiberReconciler({
     hostContext: {},
     internalInstanceHandle: Object,
   ): Instance {
-    const tag = ReactNativeTagHandles.allocateTag();
+    const tag = nextReactTag;
+    nextReactTag += 2;
+
     const viewConfig = ReactNativeViewConfigRegistry.get(type);
 
     if (__DEV__) {
@@ -171,7 +178,8 @@ const ReactFabricRenderer = ReactFiberReconciler({
     hostContext: {},
     internalInstanceHandle: Object,
   ): TextInstance {
-    const tag = ReactNativeTagHandles.allocateTag();
+    const tag = nextReactTag;
+    nextReactTag += 2;
 
     const node = FabricUIManager.createNode(
       tag, // reactTag
diff --git a/packages/react-native-renderer/src/ReactNativeEventEmitter.js b/packages/react-native-renderer/src/ReactNativeEventEmitter.js
index f75cbba0679d8..e43644a620826 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-renderer/src/ReactNativeEventEmitter.js
+++ b/packages/react-native-renderer/src/ReactNativeEventEmitter.js
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ import {batchedUpdates} from 'events/ReactGenericBatching';
 import warning from 'fbjs/lib/warning';
 
 import {getInstanceFromNode} from './ReactNativeComponentTree';
-import ReactNativeTagHandles from './ReactNativeTagHandles';
 
 import type {AnyNativeEvent} from 'events/PluginModuleType';
 
@@ -166,7 +165,7 @@ export function receiveTouches(
     let rootNodeID = null;
     const target = nativeEvent.target;
     if (target !== null && target !== undefined) {
-      if (target < ReactNativeTagHandles.tagsStartAt) {
+      if (target < 1) {
         if (__DEV__) {
           warning(
             false,
diff --git a/packages/react-native-renderer/src/ReactNativeFiberRenderer.js b/packages/react-native-renderer/src/ReactNativeFiberRenderer.js
index 956336c47b88a..ebb4e17d1f09a 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-renderer/src/ReactNativeFiberRenderer.js
+++ b/packages/react-native-renderer/src/ReactNativeFiberRenderer.js
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ import {
 } from './ReactNativeComponentTree';
 import ReactNativeFiberHostComponent from './ReactNativeFiberHostComponent';
 import * as ReactNativeFrameScheduling from './ReactNativeFrameScheduling';
-import ReactNativeTagHandles from './ReactNativeTagHandles';
 
 type Container = number;
 export type Instance = {
@@ -36,6 +35,19 @@ export type Instance = {
 type Props = Object;
 type TextInstance = number;
 
+// Counter for uniquely identifying views.
+// % 10 === 1 means it is a rootTag.
+// % 2 === 0 means it is a Fabric tag.
+let nextReactTag = 3;
+function allocateTag() {
+  let tag = nextReactTag;
+  if (tag % 10 === 1) {
+    tag += 2;
+  }
+  nextReactTag = tag + 2;
+  return tag;
+}
+
 function recursivelyUncacheFiberNode(node: Instance | TextInstance) {
   if (typeof node === 'number') {
     // Leaf node (eg text)
@@ -62,7 +74,7 @@ const NativeRenderer = ReactFiberReconciler({
     hostContext: {},
     internalInstanceHandle: Object,
   ): Instance {
-    const tag = ReactNativeTagHandles.allocateTag();
+    const tag = allocateTag();
     const viewConfig = ReactNativeViewConfigRegistry.get(type);
 
     if (__DEV__) {
@@ -101,7 +113,7 @@ const NativeRenderer = ReactFiberReconciler({
     hostContext: {},
     internalInstanceHandle: Object,
   ): TextInstance {
-    const tag = ReactNativeTagHandles.allocateTag();
+    const tag = allocateTag();
 
     UIManager.createView(
       tag, // reactTag
diff --git a/packages/react-native-renderer/src/ReactNativeTagHandles.js b/packages/react-native-renderer/src/ReactNativeTagHandles.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 5cf29cf424a9d..0000000000000
--- a/packages/react-native-renderer/src/ReactNativeTagHandles.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Copyright (c) 2015-present, Facebook, Inc.
- *
- * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
- * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
- *
- * @flow
- */
-
-import invariant from 'fbjs/lib/invariant';
-
-/**
- * Keeps track of allocating and associating native "tags" which are numeric,
- * unique view IDs. All the native tags are negative numbers, to avoid
- * collisions, but in the JS we keep track of them as positive integers to store
- * them effectively in Arrays. So we must refer to them as "inverses" of the
- * native tags (that are * normally negative).
- *
- * It *must* be the case that every `rootNodeID` always maps to the exact same
- * `tag` forever. The easiest way to accomplish this is to never delete
- * anything from this table.
- * Why: Because `dangerouslyReplaceNodeWithMarkupByID` relies on being able to
- * unmount a component with a `rootNodeID`, then mount a new one in its place,
- */
-const INITIAL_TAG_COUNT = 1;
-const ReactNativeTagHandles = {
-  tagsStartAt: INITIAL_TAG_COUNT,
-  tagCount: INITIAL_TAG_COUNT,
-
-  allocateTag: function(): number {
-    // Skip over root IDs as those are reserved for native
-    while (this.reactTagIsNativeTopRootID(ReactNativeTagHandles.tagCount)) {
-      ReactNativeTagHandles.tagCount++;
-    }
-    const tag = ReactNativeTagHandles.tagCount;
-    ReactNativeTagHandles.tagCount++;
-    return tag;
-  },
-
-  assertRootTag: function(tag: number): void {
-    invariant(
-      this.reactTagIsNativeTopRootID(tag),
-      'Expect a native root tag, instead got %s',
-      tag,
-    );
-  },
-
-  reactTagIsNativeTopRootID: function(reactTag: number): boolean {
-    // We reserve all tags that are 1 mod 10 for native root views
-    return reactTag % 10 === 1;
-  },
-};
-
-export default ReactNativeTagHandles;
diff --git a/packages/react-native-renderer/src/__mocks__/UIManager.js b/packages/react-native-renderer/src/__mocks__/UIManager.js
index d063b3c2acc5a..4a234fbdc11ee 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-renderer/src/__mocks__/UIManager.js
+++ b/packages/react-native-renderer/src/__mocks__/UIManager.js
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 
 // Mock of the Native Hooks
 
-const ReactNativeTagHandles = require('../ReactNativeTagHandles').default;
 const invariant = require('fbjs/lib/invariant');
 
 // Map of viewTag -> {children: [childTag], parent: ?parentTag}
@@ -18,7 +17,7 @@ let views = new Map();
 
 function autoCreateRoot(tag) {
   // Seriously, this is how we distinguish roots in RN.
-  if (!views.has(tag) && ReactNativeTagHandles.reactTagIsNativeTopRootID(tag)) {
+  if (!views.has(tag) && tag % 10 === 1) {
     roots.push(tag);
     views.set(tag, {
       children: [],