Every Hyderabad exporter making a zero rated supply faces the same choice: pay IGST upfront and wait months for a refund, or file a Letter of Undertaking and skip that payment entirely. LUT wins for almost every exporter, since it needs no bank guarantee and no security deposit, unlike the older bond route that some businesses still default to out of habit. LegalX India files your LUT from ₹499, so the choice is settled correctly before your next shipment leaves Hyderabad.
What happens if a Hyderabad exporter ships without a valid LUT?
Exporting without an approved LUT means paying IGST on that shipment upfront, in full, and then filing a separate refund claim that can take three to six months to clear. That is working capital sitting idle in a refund queue instead of funding your next order. If the export happened without either an LUT or IGST payment, penalties and interest can apply on top of the tax itself. None of this is a paperwork inconvenience. It is a direct hit to cash flow that a same day LUT filing would have avoided completely.
A HITEC City SaaS company invoicing a large overseas contract can end up with a substantial IGST amount locked away for months, right when it needs that cash for payroll or vendor payments. A Cantonment area trading firm shipping several containers a month feels the same squeeze multiplied across every single shipment, not just one.
Who is caught by LUT filing in Hyderabad, and at what threshold?
Any GST registered business exporting goods, exporting services, or supplying to an SEZ unit needs an LUT to avoid IGST, and two Hyderabad profiles show up constantly in our export filing work.
- A Hyderabad based SaaS founder exporting software from HITEC City or Madhapur, part of the Cyberabad Municipal Corporation's footprint, billing overseas clients in foreign currency.
- A trading or manufacturing SME operating inside the Secunderabad Cantonment area, shipping goods abroad and needing its LUT filed before the very first export invoice of the year.
Both profiles need the same underlying paperwork ready before filing, regardless of what they actually export. Neither one benefits from waiting until the current LUT is about to expire, since a lapse of even a single day between an old LUT and a new one leaves that window's exports exposed to full IGST.
- A valid GST registration certificate for the exporting entity
- PAN of the business and of the proprietor, partners or directors
- An Import Export Code, since most export categories require one
- The previous year's approved LUT, if this is a renewal rather than a first filing
Which department or officer ends up with a Hyderabad LUT file?
LUT approval sits with whichever officer administers your GST registration under the Centre or State split. That could be a state officer under the Commercial Taxes Department, Telangana, or a central officer under the Hyderabad GST Commissionerate or the Secunderabad GST Commissionerate. Every GSTIN reviewed carries Telangana's own state code, 36, regardless of which side of that split applies to your business.
Which dates govern a Hyderabad exporter's LUT calendar?
| Milestone | What Happens | Typical Timeline |
|---|---|---|
| LUT filed (Form GST RFD-11) | Application submitted for the financial year | Day 1 |
| Approval | LUT confirmed valid for the year | 1 to 5 working days |
| Validity window | April 1 to March 31 | One financial year only |
| Renewal | Fresh LUT required for the next year | Before April 1 each year |
Read the full LUT filing process nationwide for how these same national deadlines apply if your Hyderabad business also exports through registrations in other states.
What does LUT filing cost in Hyderabad, and what is inside the fee?
Our ₹499 starting price covers the full sequence, and our process runs in four steps every time.
- We verify your eligibility against your GST compliance history and any past tax evasion flags.
- We prepare Form GST RFD-11 along with your GST certificate, PAN and IEC details.
- We file the LUT on the GST portal, mapped to your correct Hyderabad jurisdiction.
- We deliver your approved LUT and set a renewal reminder for the next financial year.
There is no bank guarantee cost, since an LUT needs no security deposit, and no separate government fee for the form itself. A renewal in the following year is quoted the same way, once we confirm nothing material about your eligibility has actually changed at all since the last filing.
Where does Telangana professional tax sit alongside your LUT filing?
An LUT has no bearing on Telangana's own professional tax, though the same exporting business usually owes both. A certificate of registration covers an employer here, and a certificate of enrollment covers a self employed exporter, both issued by the Commercial Taxes Department, Telangana rather than any GST office at all. The governing law here is a standalone 1987 Act on professions, trades, callings and employments, administered through ptax.tgct.gov.in, entirely apart from anything actually filed with your LUT.
Why choose LegalX India for LUT filing in Hyderabad?
WeWork Krishe Emerald, Kondapur Main Road, Laxmi Cyber City, Hitec City, Kondapur, Hyderabad, Telangana 500081, is where our Hyderabad team sits, though an LUT is reviewed based on your own registration, never on where we are. We have filed LUTs for SaaS exporters near HITEC City and for trading firms inside the Cantonment area, and we send every client a renewal reminder well before the financial year turns over. Missing that one date is the single most common way a Hyderabad exporter ends up paying IGST it never needed to pay.
Most clients share their documents with us in under 10 minutes once our checklist arrives, and we confirm eligibility on the same call. That upfront honesty matters more than it sounds. A business with an unresolved tax evasion flag above the statutory threshold cannot use LUT at all, and telling a client that early saves everyone a wasted filing attempt. Talk to us for a free consultation, with a callback inside 30 minutes.