The Manufacturers Alliance/ MAPI has just released the sixth edition of the MAPI Survey of Corporate Tax Departments, reflecting the aggregated responses of the 103 tax departments that participated in the survey. This edition, like its predecessors, provides a comprehensive analysis of the department in the year the survey was conducted, 2010. For comparative purposes, the survey includes data from five prior surveys conducted in 1986, 1991, 1997, 2002, and 2007. The survey’s 108 questions covered a wide range of data and commentary on subjects such as staffing, budgets, organization, technological tools, tax compliance, financial reporting, and audit management