The planning discussions reflect the impacts of tax changes through the close of 2010 and include new commentary on today’s toughest challenges: the struggle to crawl out of a debilitating recession, the drop in global demand and associated deleveraging, the causes and effects of chronic unemployment, unprecedented government debts and deficits, the scope and impacts of the banking financial crisis, the perpetual uncertainty of taxes, the challenges of health care reform in the years ahead, and tax prospects for the future.