I believe the "one time tax hit" is adjusting for their past fake non-GAPP earnings which pretended giving away billions in stock wasn't material (I am guessing

I believe the "one time tax hit" is adjusting for their past fake non-GAPP earnings which pretended giving away billions in stock wasn't material (I am guessing, so I might be wrong). The practice of excluding billions in stock giveaways for non-GAPP earning (as not a real cost) was long seen as misleading by me and many others http://investing.curiouscatblog.net/2016/04/21/buybacks-giveaways-to-executives-and-non-gaap-earnings/ http://investing.curiouscatblog.net/2016/04/21/buybacks-give... They also decided to stop using that deceptive practice, so going forward the non-GAPP earnings will be less fake. It is sad Google used such deceptive practices. I believe it was forced into being less deceptive by accounting standards not by some decision to be less deceptive going forward.