Easy Crypto – Vault Digital Funds bring Bitcoin to the mainstream

Janine Grainger is the CEO and co-founder of Easy Crypto, a New Zealand-based digital currency retailer, and Vault International Bitcoin Fund (VIBF) a New Zealand-based Portfolio Investment Entity (PIE) Fund that provides investors with exposure to offshore listed Bitcoin funds and ETFs.
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Vault Digital Funds Limited was founded in 2021 in partnership with Easy Crypto, New Zealand’s largest cryptocurrency brokerage. The Vault International Bitcoin Fund (VIBF) is the first digital asset fund to be launched under the Vault Digital Funds registered scheme. VIBF is a New Zealand-based Portfolio Investment Entity (PIE) Fund that provides investors with exposure to offshore listed Bitcoin funds and ETFs, taxed under the FDR methodology.
Investors can gain exposure to digital assets investing without the challenges of buying, storing, and safekeeping digital currencies directly. The Vault International Bitcoin Fund is a Multi-rate Portfolio Investment Entity (PIE) that will be taxed in accordance with the Fair Dividend Rate method. Given the PIE fund will own fund(s) listed on an offshore exchange, the underlying investment will be treated as a global equity for tax purposes.
In effect, this means there is no capital gains tax on any gains made on the VIBF. There will be an annual “deemed” dividend of 5% per annum, and investors would pay a maximum of 28% of tax on that 5% dividend, so an effective maximum tax rate of 1.4%pa.
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