WA Labor leader Mark McGowan says he is confident the release of the party's costings on Thursday will rebut Barnett government suggestions they "don't add up".
"Absolutely confident, we have a robust process, we have good people examining it and we have a great team in (treasury and finance spokespersons) Ben Wyatt and Rita Saffioti," he told reporters.
"We have absolutely ruled out increases in taxes or new taxes on West Australians."
The costings would include outlining a path back to surplus within four years, despite record deficit of $3 billion-plus, he said, insisting Labor was committed to cutting recurrent spending in the public sector.
Premier Colin Barnett had earlier suggested Labor would have to abandon its long list of promises totalling about $5 billion or increase debt and slug people with more taxes and charges.
The Liberals will release Treasury's costings of its policies on Wednesday afternoon.
Labor has refused to use Treasury after a negative experience with the department when it costed the centrepiece Metronet train project at the last election, with Mr McGowan claiming it was not independent.
It is using former senior public servants and academics Mike Wood and David Gilchrist.
Costings have become a key election focus in the last week, given WA's debt and deficit are at record $3 billion and $30 billion-plus levels respectively.
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