FMCG suppliers move court as sops go missing in tax exempted zones Suppliers to major FMCG companies that were given tax exemptions for investing in industrially marginal areas of Uttarakhand, J&K, Himachal Pradesh and the North East have dragged the government to court over the apparent lack of such concessions in the Goods and Services Tax (GST). Under the erstwhile tax regime, manufacturers who would invest in some areas would get indirect tax exemptions from the state governments – and sometimes from the central government. The idea was to encourage more investments in these exempted zones. In the past few years, India’s top FMCG companies such as Hindustan UnileverBSE 0.29 % and Godrej ConsumerBSE -0.99 % have been sourcing most of their products from manufacturers in these areas. In the writ petition filed in Uttarakhand High Court’s Nainital bench, the vendors said that under GST there is no clarity of what would happen to the exemptions given under the earlier re