Gordon Turner, Partner

Gordon’s VAT career started with Customs and Excise, followed by a move to Leicestershire County Council as one of the first full-time VAT specialists in local government. He chaired the Central Counties consultative group and, co-founded the first national group. Gordon raised a challenge to Customs’ treatment of cultural services which led to the introduction of a new exemption in UK VAT law.

He left LCC to join the public sector team at, first, Ernst and Young and, then, PwC. Whilst there he helped develop the LSVT shelter arrangement. Gordon is based in our Leicester office and is a long-standing member of the East Midlands VAT Practitioner Group.  With over 20 years’ experience in the sector, Gordon has developed a deep knowledge of local authority VAT issues including housing, property, outsourcing, joint ventures and economic development matters.