diff --git a/packages/blocks/src/api/raw-handling/google-docs-uid-remover.js b/packages/blocks/src/api/raw-handling/google-docs-uid-remover.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..adced320975d79
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/blocks/src/api/raw-handling/google-docs-uid-remover.js
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+/**
+ * WordPress dependencies
+ */
+import { unwrap } from '@wordpress/dom';
+
+export default function( node ) {
+	if ( ! node.id || node.id.indexOf( 'docs-internal-guid-' ) !== 0 ) {
+		return;
+	}
+
+	unwrap( node );
+}
diff --git a/packages/blocks/src/api/raw-handling/paste-handler.js b/packages/blocks/src/api/raw-handling/paste-handler.js
index cc14ace649b5a8..b40164f549689b 100644
--- a/packages/blocks/src/api/raw-handling/paste-handler.js
+++ b/packages/blocks/src/api/raw-handling/paste-handler.js
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import figureContentReducer from './figure-content-reducer';
 import shortcodeConverter from './shortcode-converter';
 import markdownConverter from './markdown-converter';
 import iframeRemover from './iframe-remover';
+import googleDocsUIDRemover from './google-docs-uid-remover';
 import { getPhrasingContentSchema } from './phrasing-content';
 import {
 	deepFilterHTML,
@@ -43,7 +44,7 @@ const { console } = window;
  * @return {string} HTML only containing phrasing content.
  */
 function filterInlineHTML( HTML ) {
-	HTML = deepFilterHTML( HTML, [ phrasingContentReducer ] );
+	HTML = deepFilterHTML( HTML, [ googleDocsUIDRemover, phrasingContentReducer ] );
 	HTML = removeInvalidHTML( HTML, getPhrasingContentSchema(), { inline: true } );
 
 	// Allows us to ask for this information when we get a report.
@@ -191,6 +192,7 @@ export function pasteHandler( { HTML = '', plainText = '', mode = 'AUTO', tagNam
 		}
 
 		const filters = [
+			googleDocsUIDRemover,
 			msListConverter,
 			headRemover,
 			listReducer,
diff --git a/test/integration/blocks-raw-handling.spec.js b/test/integration/blocks-raw-handling.spec.js
index 4e0b6c4d60b706..72426e00094fb8 100644
--- a/test/integration/blocks-raw-handling.spec.js
+++ b/test/integration/blocks-raw-handling.spec.js
@@ -36,6 +36,26 @@ describe( 'Blocks raw handling', () => {
 		expect( console ).toHaveLogged();
 	} );
 
+	it( 'should ignore Google Docs UID tag', () => {
+		const filtered = pasteHandler( {
+			HTML: '<b id="docs-internal-guid-0"><em>test</em></b>',
+			mode: 'AUTO',
+		} ).map( getBlockContent ).join( '' );
+
+		expect( filtered ).toBe( '<p><em>test</em></p>' );
+		expect( console ).toHaveLogged();
+	} );
+
+	it( 'should ignore Google Docs UID tag in inline mode', () => {
+		const filtered = pasteHandler( {
+			HTML: '<b id="docs-internal-guid-0"><em>test</em></b>',
+			mode: 'INLINE',
+		} );
+
+		expect( filtered ).toBe( '<em>test</em>' );
+		expect( console ).toHaveLogged();
+	} );
+
 	it( 'should parse Markdown', () => {
 		const filtered = pasteHandler( {
 			HTML: '* one<br>* two<br>* three',