I am also having this issue. When I try to manually insert a row on the standard tax rates, it doesn’t save. The tables are in the database (viewing with PHPmyadmin) but no data is being written there. I created a clean install of wordpress on my server with the storefront theme and a clean install of woocommerce. No other plugins installed except for what comes with the default wp 5.5.1 installation (downloaded fresh). PHP max input vars are 2080, memory limit is 500M, max input time is 120, max execution time is 180. SoapClient is not installed, but woo says that is only required for certain gateway plugins, I plan on getting that installed later.
Here is a screen shot of the chrome console with LogXMLHttpRequests on:
https://snipboard.io/jWiLl7.jpg