Partners & Staff

David Turner

The practice is led by David Turner who has a wealth of experience advising family businesses, and in particular clients in all areas of the agriculture and land based sector. David comes from a farming background and his own practical experience has assisted him in advising clients throughout his career, including when he was the leader of the agriculture and landed estates practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers for 10 years.

In addition to having overall responsibility for the whole range of services offered by David Turner & Co David has vast experience in handling one-off assignments for land businesses, including forensic and expert witness work.

Working with David is a team of accounting and business advisers (including many of the ex-PwC agriculture team) who between them have well over 100 years of experience in advising family businesses on accounting and taxation matters.

John Shepherdson

John has over 30 years of experience, prior to joining David Turner & Co John spent his entire career with PwC (in its various incarnations) in Hull. He manages a portfolio of clients handling all their compliance needs but in particular John specialises in dealing with tax matters.

John has been involved in numerous one-off special assignments; including handling tax investigations, capital tax planning, advising on strategy and restructuring issues, pension funding and many other matters.

Capital tax planning is one of John’s main areas of specialism. In this area his work often involves family succession planning and ensuring that Inheritance tax reliefs are maximised, but Capital Gains Tax is also an increased issue for land owners following the removal of indexation allowances and taper relief from 6 April 2008.

John also has extensive experience with land/assets held in trusts, and in particular dealing with the issues arising from the March 2006 budget changes.

Keith Clayton

Keith also has over 30 years of experience, and again prior to joining David Turner & Co Keith spent all of his career with PwC in Hull. He manages a portfolio of clients handling all their compliance and planning needs.

Keith has a very diverse portfolio of clients ranging from barristers and doctors through those involved in the construction sector to painting manufacturers and hoteliers, as well as farmers and land based businesses.

Keith also has extensive experience in tax planning in relation to both revenue and capital taxes.

Zoe Darke

Zoe is another of the team who trained and qualified with PwC. Zoe has spent most of her career working with David and John and their farming and landed estate clients.

In addition to a specialism in agriculture and landed estates Zoe works closely with clients covering a broad spectrum of business, advising on all areas of accounting and tax matters.

Zoe has extensive knowledge of  a wide range of bookkeeping and accountancy programs and can assist in ensuring that your in-house accounting procedures are efficient and effective, hence reducing our input and costs!