What I was trying to say was that if the OP left the money in the original accounts and didn´t take anything out, there would be no real income to report, as the OP wouldn´t have received any money. I´m assuming that interest in a retirement account that is protected would also be sheltered from US tax. And it would have to be a huge amount of interest for it to make much of a difference. If the account were kept largely in stock (shares to you guys), and nothing was bought or sold, there wouldn´t be any tax no matter what the status of the account.
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