I would like to trigger a new action after creating a new tag in a PR close & merge action:

So, step 1: PR close & merge that creates a tag and pushes it to master successfully:

on:
  pull_request:
    branches: [ master ]
    types: [closed]
jobs:

runs-on: ubuntu-latest

steps:

- uses: actions/checkout@v2

with:

fetch-depth: 0

...
- name: Git Tag
  if: github.event.pull_request.merged == true
  run: |
    git tag ${VERSION} ${GITHUB_SHA}
    git push --tags origin master

Step 2 (version a): When a new tag is pushed, initiate an event

on:
  push:
    tags:
    - '*'

Step 2 (version b): When a new tag is created, initiate an event

on:
  create:
    tags:

Even though I have tried both approaches an event is not triggered. Please help.

Note: When I do manually git tag and git push --tags (not using GitHub Actions), an event (mentioned in Step 2) is triggered.