diff --git a/internal/provider/filter_resource.go b/internal/provider/filter_resource.go
index c7b114c..90706a5 100644
--- a/internal/provider/filter_resource.go
+++ b/internal/provider/filter_resource.go
@@ -129,18 +129,9 @@ func (r *FilterResource) Create(ctx context.Context, req resource.CreateRequest,
 	var createFilter Ambar.CreateFilterRequest
 	createFilter.Description = plan.Description.ValueStringPointer()
 
-	// Filters we encode the content string in base64 for API requests to compact complex filters and prevent white spaces
-	// from giving any issues. If the customer already encoded the contents, great. But it is not required. So we will
-	// check if they already did it, and otherwise encode it.
-	_, err := base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(plan.FilterContents.ValueString())
-	if err != nil {
-		// decoding failed, and we will want to encode and assign
-		encodedContents := base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString([]byte(plan.FilterContents.ValueString()))
-		createFilter.FilterContents = encodedContents
-	} else {
-		// customer already base64 encoded, so just pass it on through.
-		createFilter.FilterContents = plan.FilterContents.ValueString()
-	}
+	// Encode the customers filter string
+	encodedContents := base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString([]byte(plan.FilterContents.ValueString()))
+	createFilter.FilterContents = encodedContents
 
 	createFilter.DataSourceId = plan.DataSourceId.ValueString()