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by masklinn 4121 days ago
The singular impersonal "it" when talking about Google as a corporate entity (its component personnel would likely be "Googlers"). So "Google pays its taxes" and "Google doesn't pay its taxes".
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It's standard in british english to refer to all companies/coporate entities/groups as "they." Personally I enjoy the moral implications of this.
Isn't "they" used sometimes as well? At least it's frequently used for "police"...
You would use "they" to refer to the class of people who are police but "it" to refer to organizations like a police department.