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After months of gruelling negotiations, the EU and the UK have finally settled on the first parts of a Brexit deal covering the questions around the single market and customs union with major implications for tax policy.

President Peña Nieto signed three decrees on September 29 2017 in order to create and delimit Mexico’s first special economic zones (SEZs), which are meant to attract investment in underdeveloped areas of the southern states of the country by granting major tax holidays and special customs regimes to persons authorised to operate therein.

European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs Pierre Moscovici speaks to International Tax Review about the EU’s blacklist of tax havens, the struggle to tackle tax avoidance and how to tax the digital economy.

The EU maintains that the blacklist is an opportunity to develop a dialogue with uncooperative jurisdictions to facilitate change. Let's see if that happens The EU Council has listed 17 jurisdictions as non-cooperative for tax purposes in its latest blacklist, and also released a grey list of 47 countries, but it has played it safe by excluding known tax havens.

Technology companies may feel targeted by the UK's budget, which introduced measures that will hit companies including Amazon, eBay, Google, Facebook and Twitter, but there were also some sweeteners to encourage post-Brexit economic prosperity.

The changes are expected to improve the state of affairs for taxpayers and tax professionals The French government has released a second corrective finance bill for 2017, which contains new provisions for cross-border mergers in response to a ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in March 2017 and complementing Emmanuel Macron's pro-business agenda.

See who has done the tax work on this month’s biggest deals

"Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance … and so we are all connected in the great Circle of Life," Mufasa once told his young cub in The Lion King.

A suite of mutually reinforcing measures with an overall focus on resolution at the earliest point in time is the ultimate goal for taxpayers and tax authorities. Achim Pross, Sandra Knaepen and Mark Johnson of the OECD describe the organisation’s comprehensive dispute resolution agenda, both within and beyond the BEPS project.

Peter Nias, barrister and Centre of Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) panel mediator of Pump Court Tax Chambers in the UK, considers whether the arbitration provisions in the OECD’s Multilateral Instrument (MLI) and Action 14 proposals offer the only option for dispute resolution for all parties.