Mrs Lynda Burkinshaw

Biography

After graduating with a degree in Accounting and Finance from Leeds Metropolitan University, I trained as a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser with KPMG. I worked in various departments, but ultimately chose to specialise in taxation. I later moved to work in the tax department of a smaller firm in Barnsley. For a time, I worked both in practice and at the University of Sheffield running tutorials in financial accounting, management accounting and taxation. In 2007 I left practice in order to teach full time at Sheffield Hallam University, returning to the University of Sheffield in May 2012 as a lecturer.

Research Interest

I recently registered for a tax related PhD, as this is the area in which I have a research interest. My interest in this area has been driven by my years working as a tax practitioner and I am particularly interested in the reasons for the complexity of the tax law and how tax practitioners cope with this, and the wealth of other extra statutory material and guidance, when providing advice to their clients.