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Supplemental Cash Flow Information (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Feb. 28, 2021
Supplemental Cash Flow Tables [Abstract] |
Supplemental Cash Flow | Cash paid for interest expense and income taxes for the nine-month periods ended February 28, 2021 and February 29, 2020 was as follows (in millions):
|  | 2021 |  |  | 2020 |
Cash payments for: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Interest (net of capitalized interest) |  | $ | 593 |  |  | $ | 511 |
Income taxes |  | $ | 934 |  |  | $ | 291 |
Income tax refunds received |  |  | (42 | ) |  |  | (321 | )
Cash tax payments (refunds), net |  | $ | 892 |  |  | $ | (30 | )

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