diff --git a/.rubocop_todo.yml b/.rubocop_todo.yml
index 894146e628..e3b612d862 100644
--- a/.rubocop_todo.yml
+++ b/.rubocop_todo.yml
@@ -861,7 +861,6 @@ Style/FrozenStringLiteralComment:
     - 'app/validators/date_time_string_validator.rb'
     - 'app/validators/distributors_validator.rb'
     - 'app/validators/integer_array_validator.rb'
-    - 'app/views/spree/admin/taxons/search.rabl'
     - 'config.ru'
     - 'engines/order_management/app/controllers/order_management/application_controller.rb'
     - 'engines/order_management/app/services/order_management/reports/enterprise_fee_summary/authorizer.rb'
diff --git a/app/controllers/spree/admin/taxons_controller.rb b/app/controllers/spree/admin/taxons_controller.rb
index ddc1b63c70..240cb2cd03 100644
--- a/app/controllers/spree/admin/taxons_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/spree/admin/taxons_controller.rb
@@ -3,14 +3,6 @@ module Spree
     class TaxonsController < Spree::Admin::BaseController
       respond_to :html, :json, :js
 
-      def search
-        @taxons = if params[:ids]
-                    Spree::Taxon.where(id: params[:ids].split(','))
-                  else
-                    Spree::Taxon.limit(20).search(name_cont: params[:q]).result
-                  end
-      end
-
       def create
         @taxonomy = Taxonomy.find(params[:taxonomy_id])
         @taxon = @taxonomy.taxons.build(params[:taxon])
diff --git a/app/views/spree/admin/taxons/search.rabl b/app/views/spree/admin/taxons/search.rabl
deleted file mode 100644
index 5214337d12..0000000000
--- a/app/views/spree/admin/taxons/search.rabl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-object false
-child(@taxons => :taxons) do
-  attributes :name, :pretty_name, :id
-end
diff --git a/config/routes/spree.rb b/config/routes/spree.rb
index 095350b699..1fb8d9c1d0 100644
--- a/config/routes/spree.rb
+++ b/config/routes/spree.rb
@@ -154,12 +154,6 @@ Spree::Core::Engine.routes.draw do
       resources :taxons
     end
 
-    resources :taxons, :only => [] do
-      collection do
-        get :search
-      end
-    end
-
     resources :tax_rates
     resource  :tax_settings
     resources :tax_categories