diff --git a/Reconstruction/tauRecTools/Root/TauCalibrateLC.cxx b/Reconstruction/tauRecTools/Root/TauCalibrateLC.cxx
index 69e753f80878985ae839cf1c710826bb519d0553..71840b2f08ac8863297bdb1eb18d14e22c1c7652 100644
--- a/Reconstruction/tauRecTools/Root/TauCalibrateLC.cxx
+++ b/Reconstruction/tauRecTools/Root/TauCalibrateLC.cxx
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
-  Copyright (C) 2002-2020 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration
+  Copyright (C) 2002-2021 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration
 */
 
 #include "tauRecTools/TauCalibrateLC.h"
@@ -67,18 +67,6 @@ StatusCode TauCalibrateLC::initialize() {
     return StatusCode::FAILURE;
   }
     
-  // get the histogram with eta corrections
-  key = "etaCorrection";
-  histo = dynamic_cast<TH1*>(file->Get(key.c_str()));
-  if (histo) {
-    histo->SetDirectory(0);
-    m_etaCorrectionHist = std::unique_ptr<TH1>(histo);
-  }
-  else {
-    ATH_MSG_FATAL("Failed to get an object with  key " << key);
-    return StatusCode::FAILURE;
-  }
-
   TString tmpSlopKey[s_nProngBins] = {"slopeNPV1P", "slopeNPV3P"};
   TString tmpFuncBase[s_nProngBins] = {"OneP_Eta_", "MultiP_Eta_"};
 
diff --git a/Reconstruction/tauRecTools/tauRecTools/TauCalibrateLC.h b/Reconstruction/tauRecTools/tauRecTools/TauCalibrateLC.h
index 8fbaab7bc7e7c1d596a2468908469889b96a0209..dbd8dd47e1070e615f4bee0170de0ce9453f37af 100644
--- a/Reconstruction/tauRecTools/tauRecTools/TauCalibrateLC.h
+++ b/Reconstruction/tauRecTools/tauRecTools/TauCalibrateLC.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
-  Copyright (C) 2002-2020 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration
+  Copyright (C) 2002-2021 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration
 */
 
 #ifndef TAUREC_TAUCALIBRATELC_H
@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@ class TF1;
 /**
  * @brief Implementation of tau energy scale (TES) with eta and pile-up correction.
  * 
- *  The energy and eta (direction) correction are done separatly and steered by flags.
- * 
  * @author Margar Simonyan
  * @author Felix Friedrich
  *                                                                              
@@ -42,7 +40,6 @@ class TauCalibrateLC : public TauRecToolBase {
     std::vector<std::vector<std::unique_ptr<TF1>>> m_calibFunc;
     std::vector<std::unique_ptr<TH1>> m_slopeNPVHist; 
     std::unique_ptr<TH1> m_etaBinHist = nullptr; 
-    std::unique_ptr<TH1> m_etaCorrectionHist = nullptr; 
 
     unsigned int m_minNTrackAtVertex=0;
     int    m_nEtaBins=0;