HMRC exchange rates for August 2016
145 currencies, as HMRC published them for 1 to 31 August 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 August 2016
| Code | Currency | Units per £1 | Period covered |
|---|---|---|---|
| AED | UAE dirham | 4.8404 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| ALL | Lek | 162.84 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| AMD | Armenian dram | 628.01 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| AOA | Kwanza | 218.4 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| ARS | Argentine peso | 19.68 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| AUD | Australian dollar | 1.7602 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| AWG | Aruban florin | 2.3589 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| AZN | Azerbaijan manat | 2.0742 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| BAM | Convertible mark | 2.3411 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| BBD | Barbados dollar | 2.6356 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| BDT | Taka | 103.4 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| BGN | Bulgarian lev | 2.3411 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| BHD | Bahraini dinar | 0.4974 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| BIF | Burundi franc | 2,184.36 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| BMD | Bermudian dollar | 1.3178 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| BND | Brunei dollar | 1.7892 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| BOB | Boliviano | 9.1389 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| BRL | Brazilian real | 4.2716 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| BSD | Bahamian dollar | 1.3178 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| BTN | Ngultrum | 88.55 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| BWP | Pula | 14.1699 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| BYR | not held | 2.6455 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| BZD | Belize dollar | 2.629 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| CAD | Canadian dollar | 1.7171 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| CDF | Congolese franc | 1,271.67 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| CHF | Swiss franc | 1.2995 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| CLP | Chilean peso | 858.04 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| CNY | Yuan renminbi | 8.8003 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| COP | Colombian peso | 3,859.83 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| CRC | Costa Rican colon | 720.03 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| CUP | Cuban peso | 1.3178 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| CVE | Cabo Verde escudo | 132.24 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| CZK | Czech koruna | 32.34 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| DJF | Djibouti franc | 234.19 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| DKK | Danish krone | 8.9046 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| DOP | Dominican peso | 60.55 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| DZD | Algerian dinar | 145.94 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| ECS | Dollar | 1.3178 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| EGP | Egyptian pound | 11.7 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| ERN | Nakfa | 19.76 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| ETB | Ethiopian birr | 29.05 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| EUR | Euro | 1.197 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| FJD | Fiji dollar | 2.7431 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| GEL | Lari | 3.0902 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| GHS | Ghana cedi | 5.2053 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| GMD | Dalasi | 56.45 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| GNF | Guinean franc | 11,883.93 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| GTQ | Quetzal | 9.9962 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| GYD | Guyana dollar | 271.8 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| HKD | Hong Kong dollar | 10.22 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| HNL | Lempira | 30.11 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| HRK | Kuna | 8.9597 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| HTG | Gourde | 83.61 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| HUF | Forint | 376.41 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| IDR | Rupiah | 17,279.69 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| ILS | New Israeli sheqel | 5.0851 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| INR | Indian rupee | 88.55 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| IQD | Iraqi dinar | 1,559.61 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| ISK | Iceland krona | 161.33 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| JMD | Jamaican dollar | 166.83 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| JOD | Jordanian dinar | 0.935 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| JPY | Yen | 140.64 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| KES | Kenyan shilling | 133.88 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| KGS | Som | 88.47 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| KHR | Riel | 5,383.21 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| KMF | Comorian franc | 588.86 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| KRW | Won | 1,503.54 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| KWD | Kuwaiti dinar | 0.3986 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| KYD | Cayman Islands dollar | 1.0806 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| KZT | Tenge | 449.52 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| LAK | Lao kip | 10,661 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| LBP | Lebanese pound | 1,985.92 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| LKR | Sri Lanka rupee | 192.66 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| LRD | Liberian dollar | 1.3178 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| LSL | Loti | 18.81 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| LYD | Libyan dinar | 1.8449 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| MAD | Moroccan dirham | 12.97 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| MDL | Moldovan leu | 26.03 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| MGA | Malagasy ariary | 4,014.02 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| MKD | Denar | 73.69 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| MMK | Kyat | 1,559.22 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| MNT | Tugrik | 2,677.11 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| MOP | Pataca | 10.52 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| MRO | Ouguiya | 469.13 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| MUR | Mauritius rupee | 46.75 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| MVR | Rufiyaa | 20.16 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| MWK | Malawi kwacha | 945.52 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| MXN | Mexican peso | 24.42 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| MYR | Malaysian ringgit | 5.3068 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| MZN | Mozambique metical | 86.48 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| NGN | Naira | 388.42 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| NIO | Cordoba oro | 37.8 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| NOK | Norwegian krone | 11.19 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| NPR | Nepalese rupee | 141.68 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| NZD | New Zealand dollar | 1.8731 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| OMR | Rial Omani | 0.5074 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| PAB | Balboa | 1.3178 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| PEN | Sol | 4.3565 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| PGK | Kina | 4.1726 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| PHP | Philippine peso | 62.08 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| PKR | Pakistan rupee | 138.13 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| PLN | Zloty | 5.2259 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| PYG | Guarani | 7,319.93 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| QAR | Qatari rial | 4.7979 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| RON | Romanian leu | 5.3511 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| RSD | Serbian dinar | 147.73 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| RUB | Russian rouble | 83.55 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| RWF | Rwanda franc | 1,034.92 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| SAR | Saudi riyal | 4.9424 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| SBD | Solomon Islands dollar | 10.23 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| SCR | Seychelles rupee | 17.39 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| SDG | Sudanese pound | 8.0336 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| SEK | Swedish krona | 11.32 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| SGD | Singapore dollar | 1.7892 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| SLL | Leone | 7,307.2 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| SOS | Somali shilling | 765.64 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| SRD | Surinam dollar | 9.3946 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| STD | Dobra | 29,360.6 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| SVC | El Salvador colon | 11.53 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| SZL | Lilangeni | 18.81 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| THB | Baht | 46.07 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| TMT | Turkmenistan new manat | 4.6189 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| TND | Tunisian dinar | 2.9314 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| TOP | Pa'anga | 1.7602 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| TRY | Turkish lira | 4.0101 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| TTD | Trinidad and Tobago dollar | 8.8227 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| TWD | New Taiwan dollar | 42.2 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| TZS | Tanzanian shilling | 2,884.66 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| UAH | Hryvnia | 32.68 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| UGX | Uganda shilling | 4,438.35 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| USD | US dollar | 1.3178 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| UYU | Peso uruguayo | 39.75 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| UZS | Uzbekistan sum | 3,899.2 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| VEF | Bolívar | 13.16 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| VND | Dong | 29,387.04 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| VUV | Vatu | 145.06 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| WST | Tala | 3.3202 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| XAF | CFA franc BEAC | 785.15 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| XCD | East Caribbean dollar | 3.5581 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| XOF | CFA franc BCEAO | 785.15 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| XPF | CFP franc | 142.83 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| YER | Yemeni rial | 329.58 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| ZAR | Rand | 18.81 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| ZMW | Zambian kwacha | 12.61 | 1 to 31 August 2016 |
| ZWL | Zimbabwe dollar | 476.91 | 1 to 31 August 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 August 2016:
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/softwaredevelopers/rates/exrates-monthly-0816.XML
The same file is also served with a lower case extension, at http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/softwaredevelopers/rates/exrates-monthly-0816.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 August 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.