359.2.4. For the purpose of determining the paid-up capital amount at a particular time under section 359.2.3 of any corporation and for the purposes of this section, a corporation that was created as a consequence of an amalgamation or merger of other corporations, each of which is in this section referred to as a “predecessor corporation”, and that does not have a taxation year that ended more than 30 days before the particular time, is deemed to have paid-up capital for a taxation year that ended more than 30 days before the particular time equal to the aggregate of all amounts each of which is the paid-up capital of a predecessor corporation for its last taxation year that ended more than 30 days before the particular time.