Illinois § 15.55

§ 15.55.

Basis of computation of license fee payable by foreign corporations. (a) The basis for the initial license fee payable by a foreign corporation shall be the amount represented in this State, determined in accordance with the provisions of this Section, of its paid-in capital whenever the application for authority indicates the corporation commenced transacting business in this State prior to January 1, 1991. (b) The basis for an additional license fee payable by a foreign corporation, except in the case of a statutory merger, shall be the increased amount represented in this State, determined in accordance with the provisions of this Section, of its paid-in capital as disclosed by the annual report, by any report of issuance of additional shares, or of an increase in paid-in capital without the issuance of shares, or of an exchange or reclassification of shares, or of cumulative changes in paid-in capital, but the basis shall not include any increases in its paid-in capital represented in this State that occur after both December 31, 1990 and the last day of the third month immediately preceding its anniversary month in 1991. (c) Whenever a foreign corporation shall be a party to a statutory merger that becomes effective either prior to January 1, 1991 or on or prior to the last day of the third month immediately preceding the surviving corporation's anniversary month in 1991 and shall be the surviving corporation, the basis for an additional license fee shall be the increased amount represented in this State, determined in accordance with the provisions of this Section, of the paid-in capital of the surviving corporation immediately after the merger over the aggregate of the amounts represented in this State of the paid-in capital of the merged corporations. (d) For the purpose of determining the amount represented in this State of the paid-in capital of a foreign corporation that shall be a party to a statutory merger that becomes effective either prior to January 1, 1991 or on or prior to the last day of the third month immediately preceding the surviving corporation's anniversary month in 1991, the amount represented in this State shall be that proportion of its paid-in capital that the sum of (1) the value of its property located in this State and (2) the gross amount of business transacted by it at or from places of business in this State bears to the sum of (1) the value of all of its property, wherever located, and (2) the gross amount of its business, wherever transacted. (e) The proportion represented in this State of the paid-in capital of a foreign corporation shall be determined from information contained in the latest annual report of the corporation on file on the date the particular increase in paid-in capital is shown to have been made, or, if no annual report was on file on the date of the increase, from information contained in the application of the corporation for authority to transact business in this State, or, in case of a merger that becomes effective either prior to January 1, 1991 or on or prior to the last day of the third month immediately preceding the surviving corporation's anniversary month in 1991, from information contained in the report of the surviving corporation of the amount of its paid-in capital following the merger. (f) 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. 92-33, eff. 7-1-01.)