For the application of the first two paragraphs of article L. 221-15 relating to a taxpayer’s eligibility for the popular savings passbook account :
1° The income ceilings mentioned in the first paragraph of the article are calculated each calendar year as follows:
a) The amounts mentioned in I of article 1417 of the General Tax Code, rounded to the nearest euro, are multiplied by a coefficient equal to 1.8. The amounts thus obtained are rounded up to the nearest euro;
b) The reference year used for these amounts is, depending on the case, the year in which the application is made or the year in which the eligibility check is carried out;
2° The amount of income is determined in accordance with the procedures set out in IV of article 1417 of the General Tax Code. In the event of the death of a spouse or, in the case of a civil solidarity pact, a partner, the eligibility of the surviving taxpayer is assessed with regard to the income of the tax household as at 31 December of the year of death;
3° To open a popular savings passbook account, the income of the taxpayer’s tax household in the year before last or the last year before the year in which the account is opened must not exceed the ceilings mentioned in 1° ;
4° Taxpayers whose tax household income for the penultimate year preceding the year for which annual eligibility is assessed does not exceed the ceilings mentioned in 1° remain eligible for the popular savings passbook account for that year.