(805 ILCS 5/15.25) (from Ch. 32, par. 15.25)
    Sec. 15.25. Basis of computation of license fees payable by domestic corporations.
    (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c) of this Section, the basis for each additional license fee payable by a domestic corporation, except in the case of a statutory merger or consolidation, shall be the amount, expressed in dollars, of the increase in its paid-in capital over the amount thereof last reported in any document, other than an annual report, required by this Act to be filed in the office of the Secretary of State.
    (b) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c) of this Section, the basis for an additional license fee payable by the surviving or new corporation, in case of a statutory merger or consolidation of domestic corporations shall be the amount, expressed in dollars, of the increase in the paid-in capital of the surviving or new corporation immediately after the merger or consolidation over the sum of the paid-in capital of all of the merged or consolidated corporations, as last reported by them in any document, other than annual reports, required by this Act to be filed in the office of the Secretary of State.
    (c) The additional license fees referred to in subsections (a) and (b) of this Section shall not be payable with respect to issuances of shares or increases in paid-in capital that occur subsequent to both December 31, 1990 and the last day of the third month immediately preceding the anniversary month of the corporation in 1991.
    (d) No basis under this Section may consist of any redeemable preference shares sold to the United States Secretary of Transportation under Sections 505 and 506 of Public Law 94-210.
(Source: P.A. 86-985; 86-1217.)