HMRC exchange rates for April 2016
145 currencies, as HMRC published them for 1 to 30 April 2016. Each figure is the number of units you get for one pound.
Divide, do not multiply
Sterling is the foreign amount divided by the rate in this table. Multiplying instead is wrong by the square of the rate, which on a typical dollar figure is more than half as much again.
HMRC do not prescribe which exchange rate you use. CG78310 expects a reasonable and consistent method, and the monthly rate is the method this calculator applies to every trade. What CG78310 does settle is the date: sterling worth is taken at the date of the acquisition or disposal (Bentley v Pike, Capcount Trading v Evans). A broker's own rate and a market feed are neither published nor consistent, so this site never reads one.
Every rate HMRC published for April 2016
| Code | Currency | Units per £1 | Period covered |
|---|---|---|---|
| AED | UAE dirham | 5.3299 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| ALL | Lek | 177.84 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| AMD | Armenian dram | 705.35 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| AOA | Kwanza | 230.47 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| ARS | Argentine peso | 20.38 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| AUD | Australian dollar | 1.8736 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| AWG | Aruban florin | 2.5976 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| AZN | Azerbaijan manat | 2.3454 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| BAM | Convertible mark | 2.5136 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| BBD | Barbados dollar | 2.9023 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| BDT | Taka | 113.73 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| BGN | Bulgarian lev | 2.514 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| BHD | Bahraini dinar | 0.5472 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| BIF | Burundi franc | 2,263.64 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| BMD | Bermudian dollar | 1.411 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| BND | Brunei dollar | 1.9692 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| BOB | Boliviano | 9.9113 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| BRL | Brazilian real | 5.1887 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| BSD | Bahamian dollar | 1.411 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| BTN | Ngultrum | 94.1 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| BWP | Pula | 16.04 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| BYR | not held | 29,385.74 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| BZD | Belize dollar | 2.895 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| CAD | Canadian dollar | 1.8631 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| CDF | Congolese franc | 1,340.86 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| CHF | Swiss franc | 1.3735 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| CLP | Chilean peso | 979.88 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| CNY | Yuan renminbi | 9.3927 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| COP | Colombian peso | 4,468.32 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| CRC | Costa Rican colon | 774.85 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| CUP | Cuban peso | 1.4511 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| CVE | Cabo Verde escudo | 141.45 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| CZK | Czech koruna | 34.74 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| DJF | Djibouti franc | 257.89 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| DKK | Danish krone | 9.41 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| DOP | Dominican peso | 66.44 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| DZD | Algerian dinar | 159.8 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| ECS | Dollar | 1.411 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| EGP | Egyptian pound | 12.89 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| ERN | Nakfa | 21.76 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| ETB | Ethiopian birr | 30.97 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| EUR | Euro | 1.2626 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| FJD | Fiji dollar | 3.0219 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| GEL | Lari | 3.3159 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| GHS | Ghana cedi | 5.5797 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| GMD | Dalasi | 57.11 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| GNF | Guinean franc | 11,065 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| GTQ | Quetzal | 11.23 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| GYD | Guyana dollar | 301.11 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| HKD | Hong Kong dollar | 10.94 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| HNL | Lempira | 32.84 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| HRK | Kuna | 9.6767 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| HTG | Gourde | 89.62 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| HUF | Forint | 398.52 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| IDR | Rupiah | 19,035.43 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| ILS | New Israeli sheqel | 5.4133 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| INR | Indian rupee | 94.1 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| IQD | Iraqi dinar | 1,719.6 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| ISK | Iceland krona | 181.21 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| JMD | Jamaican dollar | 176.51 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| JOD | Jordanian dinar | 1.0292 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| JPY | Yen | 158.96 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| KES | Kenyan shilling | 147.36 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| KGS | Som | 104.56 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| KHR | Riel | 5,811.84 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| KMF | Comorian franc | 632.26 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| KRW | Won | 1,638.58 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| KWD | Kuwaiti dinar | 0.4362 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| KYD | Cayman Islands dollar | 1.1899 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| KZT | Tenge | 502.34 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| LAK | Lao kip | 11,776.05 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| LBP | Lebanese pound | 2,192.68 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| LKR | Sri Lanka rupee | 210.45 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| LRD | Liberian dollar | 1.411 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| LSL | Loti | 22.15 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| LYD | Libyan dinar | 1.9518 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| MAD | Moroccan dirham | 14.05 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| MDL | Moldovan leu | 28.59 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| MGA | Malagasy ariary | 4,630.61 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| MKD | Denar | 79.14 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| MMK | Kyat | 1,757.84 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| MNT | Tugrik | 2,967.59 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| MOP | Pataca | 11.58 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| MRO | Ouguiya | 496.29 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| MUR | Mauritius rupee | 51.32 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| MVR | Rufiyaa | 22.43 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| MWK | Malawi kwacha | 996.06 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| MXN | Mexican peso | 24.73 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| MYR | Malaysian ringgit | 5.6348 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| MZN | Mozambique metical | 74 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| NGN | Naira | 288.85 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| NIO | Cordoba oro | 40.95 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| NOK | Norwegian krone | 11.97 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| NPR | Nepalese rupee | 154.51 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| NZD | New Zealand dollar | 2.1063 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| OMR | Rial Omani | 0.5587 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| PAB | Balboa | 1.4511 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| PEN | Sol | 4.8998 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| PGK | Kina | 4.4469 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| PHP | Philippine peso | 65.44 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| PKR | Pakistan rupee | 151.86 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| PLN | Zloty | 5.4758 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| PYG | Guarani | 8,258.67 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| QAR | Qatari rial | 5.2844 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| RON | Romanian leu | 5.7476 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| RSD | Serbian dinar | 157.83 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| RUB | Russian rouble | 98.76 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| RWF | Rwanda franc | 1,098.41 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| SAR | Saudi riyal | 5.29 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| SBD | Solomon Islands dollar | 11.41 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| SCR | Seychelles rupee | 19.29 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| SDG | Sudanese pound | 8.8517 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| SEK | Swedish krona | 11.66 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| SGD | Singapore dollar | 1.9282 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| SLL | Leone | 5,885.85 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| SOS | Somali shilling | 892.45 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| SRD | Surinam dollar | 5.8046 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| STD | Dobra | 31,482.63 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| SVC | El Salvador colon | 12.68 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| SZL | Lilangeni | 22.15 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| THB | Baht | 49.54 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| TMT | Turkmenistan new manat | 5.079 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| TND | Tunisian dinar | 2.9059 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| TOP | Pa'anga | 1.8736 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| TRY | Turkish lira | 4.1527 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| TTD | Trinidad and Tobago dollar | 9.5488 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| TWD | New Taiwan dollar | 45.86 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| TZS | Tanzanian shilling | 3,173.65 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| UAH | Hryvnia | 38.6 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| UGX | Uganda shilling | 4,893.27 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| USD | US dollar | 1.411 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| UYU | Peso uruguayo | 46.83 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| UZS | Uzbekistan sum | 4,145.4 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| VEF | Bolívar | 9.1498 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| VND | Dong | 32,349.79 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| VUV | Vatu | 160.99 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| WST | Tala | 3.7019 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| XAF | CFA franc BEAC | 843.01 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| XCD | East Caribbean dollar | 3.9181 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| XOF | CFA franc BCEAO | 843.01 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| XPF | CFP franc | 153.36 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| YER | Yemeni rial | 311.98 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| ZAR | Rand | 21.62 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| ZMW | Zambian kwacha | 16.44 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
| ZWL | Zimbabwe dollar | 525.17 | 1 to 30 April 2016 |
Rates are shown exactly as published and are not rounded, because the calculator divides by the same figure. A currency with no name against it is one this server holds only by code.
Where this month came from
Months before January 2021 come from HMRC's own XML archive, which is what the gov.uk collection links to for monthly rates up to December 2020. This is the file for April 2016:
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/softwaredevelopers/rates/exrates-monthly-0416.XML
The same file is also served with a lower case extension, at http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/softwaredevelopers/rates/exrates-monthly-0416.xml, and HMRC's own index is inconsistent about which. The host is case sensitive, so both spellings are tried. The file carries a Period attribute and a rate is kept only when that attribute names the month asked for, because a wrong month URL still answers 200 with a complete and valid looking file.
The collection that lists both is Exchange rates for customs and VAT on gov.uk. Nothing here is taken from a mirror. A rate comes from HMRC or it does not come at all.
Using this month on a return
- A trade made in April 2016 converts at the rate on this page. A trade made in another month uses that month's page, on the buy and on the sale alike.
- If the rate for a currency is not on this page, HMRC did not publish one for it that month, or this server has not loaded it. The calculator names the currency and the month and refuses rather than borrowing another currency's rate.
- A pence quoted London price is not a foreign currency. Pence are converted by dividing by 100, and that happens before any of this.
Upload a broker export and every foreign trade in it is converted at the HMRC rate for its own month, with the month named in the report. The guide explains the matching rules that decide which cost a disposal takes.