diff --git a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-tasks/pom.xml b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-tasks/pom.xml
index b50d7de246aa..8e18fdb8784e 100644
--- a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-tasks/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-tasks/pom.xml
@@ -18,10 +18,6 @@
     <site.installationModule>google-cloud-tasks-v2</site.installationModule>
   </properties>
   <dependencies>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
-      <artifactId>google-cloud-core</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
       <artifactId>google-cloud-core-grpc</artifactId>
@@ -38,18 +34,6 @@
       <groupId>com.google.api.grpc</groupId>
       <artifactId>proto-google-cloud-tasks-v2beta3</artifactId>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
-      <artifactId>grpc-netty-shaded</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
-      <artifactId>grpc-stub</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
-      <artifactId>grpc-auth</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
 
     <!-- Test dependencies -->
     <dependency>
@@ -57,11 +41,6 @@
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.objenesis</groupId>
-      <artifactId>objenesis</artifactId>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.api.grpc</groupId>
       <artifactId>grpc-google-cloud-tasks-v2</artifactId>