INSTRUCTIONS

This Form must be completed by investment companies that have custody of securities or similar investments.

Investment Company

1.                                       All items must be completed by the investment company.

2.                                       Give this Form to the independent public accountant who, in compliance with Rule 17f-2 under the Act and applicable state law, examines securities and similar investments in the custody of the investment company.

Accountant

3.                                       Submit this Form to the Securities and Exchange Commission and appropriate state securities administrators when filing the certificate of accounting required by Rule 17f-2 under the Act and applicable state law. File the original and one copy with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s principal office in Washington, D.C., one copy with the regional office for the region in which the investment company’s principal business operations are conducted, and one copy with the appropriate state administrator(s), if applicable.

THIS FORM MUST BE GIVEN TO YOUR INDEPENDENT PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT

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SEC’s Collection of Information

An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. Filing of Form N-17f-2 is mandatory for an investment company that has custody of securities or similar investments. Rule 17f-2 under section 17(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 requires the investment company to retain an independent public accountant to verify the company’s securities and similar investments by actual examination three times during each fiscal year. The accountant must prepare a certificate stating that the examination has occurred and describing the examination, and must transmit the certificate to the Commission with Form N-17f-2 as a cover sheet. The Commission uses the Form to ensure that the certificate is properly attributed to the investment company. The Commission estimates that the burden of completing Form N-17f-2 is approximately 1.0 hours per filing. Any member of the public may direct to the Commission any comments concerning the accuracy of the burden estimate of this Form, and any suggestions for reducing this burden. This collection of information has been reviewed by the Office of Management and Budget in accordance with the clearance requirements of 44 U.S.C. § 3507. Responses to this collection of information will not be kept confidential.

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Board of Trustees

ING Global Equity Dividend and Premium Opportunity Fund

We have examined management’s assertion, included in the accompanying Management Statement Regarding Compliance with Certain Provisions of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the Act), that ING Global Equity Dividend and Premium Opportunity Fund (the Fund), complied with the applicable requirements of subsections (b) and (c) of rule 17f-2 under the Act with respect to the securities held by affiliated sub-custodian banks pursuant to rule 17f-5 of the Act as of March 31, 2007, May 31, 2007, and October 31, 2007. Management is responsible for the Fund’s compliance with those requirements. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on management’s assertion about the Fund’s compliance based on our examinations.

Our examinations were conducted in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) and, accordingly, included examining, on a test basis, evidence about the Fund’s compliance with those requirements and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. Included among our procedures were the following tests performed as of March 31, 2007, May 31, 2007, and October 31, 2007, and, with respect to agreement of security purchases and sales, for the period January 1, 2007 through October 31, 2007:

KPMG LLP, a U.S. limited liability partnership, is the U.S.

member firm of KPMG International, a Swiss cooperative.

We believe that our examinations provide a reasonable basis for our opinion. Our examinations do not provide a legal determination on the Fund’s compliance with the specified requirements.

In our opinion, management’s assertion that the Fund complied with the applicable requirements of subsections (b) and (c) of rule 17f-2 of the Act as of March 31, 2007, May 31, 2007, and October 31, 2007, with respect to the securities reflected in the investment accounts of the Fund that are held by the affiliated sub-custodian banks pursuant to rule 17f-5 of the Act, is fairly stated, in all material respects. We have not examined the Fund’s compliance with rule 17f-5 of the Act and express no opinion thereon.

This report is intended solely for the information and use of management, the Board of Trustees of the Fund and the Securities and Exchange Commission, and is not intended to be and should not be used by anyone other than these specified parties.

Boston, Massachusetts

January 21, 2009

October 17, 2008

KPMG LLP

Attention:  Dan Strasshofer

99 High Street

Boston, MA  02110

RE:  Management Statement Regarding Compliance with Certain Provisions of the Investment Company Act of 1940

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We, as members of management of the ING Funds listed in Appendix A (the “Funds”), are responsible for complying with the requirements of subsections (b) and (c) of rule 17f-2, “Custody of Investments by Registered Management Investment Company,” of the Investment Company Act of 1940.  We are also responsible for establishing and maintaining effective internal controls over compliance with those requirements.  We have performed an evaluation of the Funds’ compliance with the requirements of subsections (b) and (c) of rule 17f-2 as of March 31, 2007, May 31, 2007, and October 31, 2007, and for the period from January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007.

Based on this evaluation, we assert that the Funds were in compliance with the applicable requirements of subsections (b) and (c) of rule 17f-2 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 as of March 31, 2007, May 31, 2007, and October 31, 2007, and for the period from January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007, with respect to securities reflected in the investment accounts of the Funds that are held by affiliated foreign sub-custodians.  We note that all affiliated sub-custodians that maintained assets of the Funds during the applicable period qualified as “Eligible Foreign Custodians” under rule 17f-5.

Appendix A