16.1. Every recipient of a zero-rated supply of a product mentioned in paragraph 1.1 of section 177 who begins, at any time, to use the product to make wine or beer shall, immediately after that time, pay to the Minister a tax in respect of the product calculated at the rate of 9.975% of the value of the consideration for the supply.
This section does not apply in respect of a product that a registrant begins to use exclusively in the course of his commercial activities and in respect of which the registrant would be entitled to claim an input tax refund had he paid the tax provided for in the first paragraph in respect of the product.
1997, c. 14, s. 330; 1997, c. 85, s. 423; 2010, c. 5, s. 207; 2011, c. 6, s. 234; 2012, c. 28, s. 32.