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Google may not be able to keep all the tax losses. It was originally reported that google would save $700M a year through 2019.* I'm not sure that they those losses are severable from the rest of the company.

* E.g. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/31/us-motorolamobilit...




There are two types of tax losses. There are those related to previous losses that Google captured on acquisition. The $700MM a year estimate relates to the anticipated future losses of Motorola. While Google is losing that benefit, it is by definition less than the amount lost! So it's not actually a benefit.




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