It would be great to have the option to deactivate or disable sales tax without deleting something inside your QuickBooks Online (QBO) company, @gardeningincarli.
Since the current option requires deleting all transactions with sales tax and you don't want to go through this method, it would be best to resend a feature recommendation and provide details specifying the need for the feature to make sales tax inactive without getting rid of existing transactions with sales tax inside the program. Refer to this handy article for further guidelines: QuickBooks Online Support.
On the other hand, we're providing these articles to help you monitor transactions entered inside QBO: Run reports in QuickBooks Online.
If you have follow-up questions about sales taxes or anything inside QuickBooks, you can always comment in this thread or post here in the Community space. We're ready to help you anytime.
