For four full days, the government suffocated its lower house opponents with bureaucratic jargon to dodge giving details of its budget savings.

At the same time, its leaders unleashed a series of thinly-veiled threats against upper house MPs, urging them to back the Liberals' controversial wage freeze strategy.

Touted as a veritable feast of forensic scrutiny into the state government's financial plan, estimates week was disappointingly light on detail.

The process saw four ministers at once grilled by non-government MPs about the Liberals' first budget in 16 years.

The hearings are normally a chance for both houses of Parliament to glean information about the government's spending habits over the past financial year, as well as its plans for the future.

Given the Liberals have only been in power six months, many ministers seized the opportunity to slam the former government's spending.

Their own plans for revenue raising and expenditure, however, were swallowed almost entirely into a murky bog of upper management-speak.

The government has promised to find about $750 million in savings and shed 700 public sector jobs over the next four years.

Estimates purportedly presented Tasmanians with a chance to discover how the ambitious targets would be met.

So, after four long days and upwards of $2 million in manpower hours, what exactly did we find out through the process?

Seven of the 700 jobs will be axed from the Department of Treasury and Finance, including its reception staff.

The government has also stamped out buying lavish umbrellas, chipping $1700 away from a $119 million reduction target on the "supplies and consumables" budget line.

Beyond these two details, voters can now be assured "savings equivalent to" the elusive headline numbers will be reached through a "whole of government" hedge maze of "high level strategies".

The government defended its transparency and accountability throughout budget estimates, arguing their political foes simply hadn't done their homework.

A multitude of ministers insisted if Labor and the Greens failed to walk away with the level of detail they required, it was an indictment on the quality of their questions.

Asking and evading probing questions in an estimates environment are masterful art forms to observe.

However, with the interrogations now behind us, Tasmanians have been left scratching their heads as to exactly how the government's savings will be made.

If a winner was to be drawn from this political scrap, it certainly wasn't voters or taxpayers.

The Premier and Treasurer both spruiked the importance of their proposed pay freeze when they fronted MLCs this week.

The pair told Legislative councillors rejecting the legislation was akin to blocking budget supply, would costs 500 public sector jobs and damage the state's credit rating.

Upper house MPs did not take kindly to the threats, and by the end of estimates week it appeared the warnings had done the government's Crown Employees Bill far more harm than good.

The estimates process was of limited value in eliciting new information about the government's maiden budget.

However, with just nine months until its next financial plan, it should soon be inescapably clear where the savings are in fact being made.