[Forwardport]Fixed - Default tax region/state appears in customer & order data

[nirav-kadiya]

Original Pull Request

#18857

Description (*)

Fixed issue of default tax region/state appears in customer & order data

Fixed Issues (if relevant)

1. Default tax region/state appears in customer & order data #16684: Default tax region/state appears in customer & order data

Manual testing scenarios (*)

1. Set a default tax region in Stores > Configuration > Sales > Tax
2. Complete an order

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• All automated tests passed successfully (all builds on Travis CI are green)

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[sivaschenko]

This fix is changing the default applied tax on checkout when a region is not selected. Now instead of tax for default region - tax for a country ('*' region) will be applied.

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