ETF sheet · Issuer-declared data

Vanguard EUR Eurozone Government Bond UCITS ETF (EUR) AccumulatingIndex, costs, listings and taxation

ISIN: IE00BH04GL39Ticker: VGEA (Borsa Italiana) · VGEA (Xetra) · VETA (London SE) · VETA (SIX)Issuer: VanguardClass: No Hedge

Issuer-declared data

Declared index

Bloomberg Euro-Aggregate: Treasury Index

TER

0.07%

Income policy

Accumulating Income

Domicile

IRELAND

Inception date

19 February 2019

Listed on

Borsa Italiana S.p.A.

Data as declared by Vanguard in the issuer’s official files and endpoints · collected on 31 July 2026 (monthly refresh). Facts only, no recommendation.

Italian taxation

Effective rate on capital gains

12.56%

White-list share

99.54%

From the government-bond («white list») share certified by the issuer every semester: 12.5% on that portion, 26% on the rest.

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Where it shows up commission-free in Italy

According to the official lists published by the brokers (downloaded and cross-checked by us), these share classes of the fund appear tradable with zero fees:

IE00BH04GL39VGEA(class: EUR ACCUMULATING)

Directazero on single buys from 2,500 €, agreement until 31 December 2026

IE00BZ163H91VETY(class: EUR DISTRIBUTING)

Directazero on single buys from 2,500 €, agreement until 31 December 2026
XTBzero (up to €100,000 monthly volume, unreachable for a retail plan); fractions available in plans

Full terms, traps and method in the observatory: Free savings plans and zero-commission ETFs: the broker survey

Official lists verified on 1 August 2026. We record published terms — this is neither an invitation to open accounts nor a recommendation: lists change, the broker’s documents prevail. Trade Republic, Scalable Capital and Trading 212 publish no per-ISIN lists and don’t appear here.

Frequently asked questions

Which index does Vanguard EUR Eurozone Government Bond UCITS ETF (EUR) Accumulating track?

The issuer Vanguard declares the benchmark: Bloomberg Euro-Aggregate: Treasury Index.

How much does VGEA cost?

The issuer-declared TER is 0.07% per year. On sale, the capital gain is taxed at an effective 12.56% rate in Italy (white-list share 99.54%).

Transparency note

The data in this sheet is declared by Vanguard in the issuer’s official files and endpoints, collected by Rebalix with a monthly refresh; taxation derives from the issuer’s tax documents (Italian Law Decree 138/2011). This is factual information for informational purposes only: it is not financial or tax advice, nor an investment recommendation. Read the fund’s KID and prospectus before investing.