ABA and Skadden Get 409A Clarity from IRS

Skadden summarizes 409A Q&A session with IRS

"Annually, the American Bar Association's Joint Committee on Employee Benefits organizes a conference with IRS and Treasury officials to present written questions and proposed responses for reaction from the government panelists. Although the government's responses to these interpretive and practical questions do not constitute official guidance and cannot be relied upon, this year's responses to questions posed by Skadden, Arps and other practitioners help clarify the government's position on some of the difficult questions that remain unanswered by the Treasury regulations under Internal Revenue Code Section 409A relating to taxation of nonqualified deferred compensation arrangement."