diff --git a/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.css b/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.css
deleted file mode 100644
index 365adc97f09..00000000000
--- a/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.css
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-/* $Id$ */
-
-#taxonomy td.term, #taxonomy td.message {
-  padding-left: 1.5em;
-}
diff --git a/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module b/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module
index e12b187eb55..dd0c590683f 100644
--- a/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module
+++ b/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ function taxonomy_overview_vocabularies() {
     );
   }
   if (empty($rows)) {
-    $rows[] = array(array('data' => t('No categories available.'), 'colspan' => '5', 'class' => 'message'));
+    $rows[] = array(array('data' => t('No categories available.'), 'colspan' => '5'));
   }
   $header = array(t('Name'), t('Type'), array('data' => t('Operations'), 'colspan' => '3'));