Adding tax to custom order items fails

When creating an order in the back-end and adding a custom order item, I need to add a tax. But when I add a tax and save, the tax field is emtied or even removed.

Further, when sending a customer invoice from an order that only contains custom order items (and no products), this email misses the tax row in the table completely.

Thanks in advance for any advice on these two issues!

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