Top-left of every bill carries your consumer/account number, the meter number (the serial on the physical meter), your name, service address, and the tariff category (LT-A, LT-E, MT-2, etc.). The tariff category is the single most important field on the bill — it determines every rate that follows.

Right below your address the bill shows sanctioned load in kW. This is the maximum draw the connection is approved for. The bill multiplies sanctioned load by the demand-charge rate for your category (residential = ৳42/kW/month) to produce the demand charge.

A 2 kW home pays ৳84 in demand charge every month — even if it used zero units.

The body of the bill lists previous reading and current reading, with the difference labelled units consumed. This is the kWh figure that drives every energy calculation. Check both readings against the meter face — meter-reader errors are not uncommon.

Residential bills (LT-A) use a progressive slab tariff. The chart below shows what each unit costs depending on which slab it falls into.

A household using 250 units pays 75 × 5.26 + 125 × 7.20 + 50 × 7.59 = ৳1,673.50 in energy charge — not 250 × 7.59. Misreading a slab table as “all units at the top slab rate” is the single most common bill confusion in Bangladesh.

VAT is 5% on the energy + demand charge total. Two rebates appear on most bills:

Use the monthly bill calculator to recompute the bill from scratch and compare against the printed figures. If they diverge by more than a rupee or two, file a complaint quoting the bill number — your distribution company will recompute and refund the excess.