SC ‘requests‘ GST Council, States to consider pleas on full reimbursement of erstwhile excise exemptions

The Supreme Court has urged the GST Council and State governments to consider a plea for reimbursement of taxes paid by industrial houses having plants in hilly States such as Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh and the North-Eastern States. However, it rejected pleas of Hero Motocorp and Sun Pharma for 100 per cent budgetary support for excise exemption while dismissing pre-GST era ‘promissory estop…