---
key: retire-or-restore-a-tax-profile
title: Retire or restore a tax profile
audience: staff
section: administration/billing-commerce
routes: ["/settings/org/billing/tax-profiles"]
permissions: ["commerce.tax_profiles.deactivate"]
features: ["billing.setup"]
since: 0.0.1
updated: 0.0.1
status: published
summary: Take an old tax profile or a single rate out of use without deleting it, so past documents keep their tax, and bring it back if you need it again.
keywords: [old tax rate, tax changed, deactivate tax, remove tax, inactive, restore tax, rate change]
related: [create-a-tax-profile, set-offering-pricing-and-tax, create-an-invoice]
---

In the sidebar, open **Settings**, then choose **Tax Profiles** under **Sales & Billing**. The page address is `/settings/org/billing/tax-profiles`.

## Before you start

- Tax profiles and rates are never deleted. Deactivating one stops it being offered on new documents; documents that already used it keep their tax exactly as it was.
- When a rate changes, add the new rate and deactivate the old one rather than editing the percentage. That keeps history honest.
- Your role needs the permission to deactivate tax profiles, and to reactivate them to bring one back. The same applies to rates.

## Steps

To retire a whole profile:

1. Find the profile in the list and open its **Actions** menu.
2. Choose **Deactivate profile**. A dialog asks you to confirm; a **Business explanation** is optional unless your organization requires one. Confirm, and Nova shows **Tax profile deactivated.** and the row now reads **Inactive**.

To retire a single rate inside a profile:

1. Press the profile's row to open it, then scroll to **Tax rates**.
2. Press **Deactivate** next to the rate and confirm in the dialog that opens. The rate stays in the list marked **Inactive** and stops being used in new calculations. Nova shows **Tax rate deactivated.**
3. If the profile now has no active rate, add the replacement rate under **Add tax rate**. See [[create-a-tax-profile]].

To bring a profile or rate back:

1. Under **Filters**, set **Status** to **Inactive** to find a retired profile.
2. Open its **Actions** menu and choose **Reactivate profile**, or open the profile and press **Reactivate** next to a retired rate. There is no confirmation; Nova shows **Tax profile reactivated.** or **Tax rate reactivated.**

## What you see

- An inactive profile opens read-only, with a note that it is kept for historical documents. Press **Reactivate profile** under the profile fields before changing it.
- A profile with no active rate shows a warning that it needs at least one active rate before it can be used on documents.
- Deactivating the default profile also clears it as the default. Open the replacement profile and set **Default for new documents** to **Use as default** so new documents get the right tax.

## If something looks different

- **Deactivate profile** is missing from the menu: your role cannot deactivate tax profiles. Ask your admin.
- **Reactivate** is greyed out on a rate: your role cannot reactivate tax rates.
- Old invoices still show the retired tax: that is expected. Deactivating never changes documents that already exist.

[[route:/settings/org/billing/tax-profiles|Open Tax Profiles]]