The capital loss incurred by a natural person in the management of his private assets, in the event of non-repayment of a loan granted under the conditions provided for in article 7 of article L. 511-6 of the Monetary and Financial Code or of a free loan mentioned in article L. 548-1 of the same code is chargeable, from the year in which the lender’s claim becomes definitively irrecoverable within the meaning of article 272 of this code, against interest generated by loans granted under the same conditions and received during the same year or the following five years.
For the application of the first paragraph, the total amount of losses chargeable may not exceed €8,000 in respect of any one year.