Japan's fiscal 2007 general account budget is expected to total 82.73 trillion yen, based on requests from government ministries and agencies, up 3.04 trillion yen from the initial budget for the current fiscal year, Finance Ministry officials said Wednesday.
The increase in budget requests for the year starting next April includes a projected 1.93 trillion yen rise in debt-servicing costs, to 20.69 trillion yen, the officials said.
The figure assumes long-term interest rates will average 2.9 percent in fiscal 2007.