Fiscal 2014 initial budget requests topped ¥100 trillion ($1.0 trillion) for the second straight year, government officials said Friday, signaling Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will face a rocky road in trying to consolidate the nation's finances.

The general-account budget requests from all ministries and agencies alone totaled a record ¥99.2 trillion, as Abe has pledged to make every effort to shake the economy out of nearly two decades of deflation by boosting domestic demand, the officials said.

Growing expectations that tax revenues may increase with the economy recovering also prodded many ministries and agencies to ask for a bigger budget, they added.