Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's government decided Tuesday to scrap the framework set up by the previous administration for the 2010 budget.
The new administration will review spending priorities from top to bottom and try to trim ministries' requests for money while finding new sources of funding by starting the budget from scratch.
While not giving a specific figure for the total budget, the administration said the ministries will submit new requests by Oct. 15, and that the government will compile the budget by the end of the year, according to a policy outline adopted by the Cabinet.