AL has made a great post on Sir Humphreys about foriegners working in New Zealand on work visas paying full New Zealand Tax rates, but not recieving any of the benefits involved. They have no access to our Health or Education systems or certain other services. I feel this is a gross miscarriage, if they are paying full taxes I think they should be eligible for the services just like any other Tax Payer.

Then there is the flipside as pointed out by Winston Peters in 2002. At the time Labour was trying to close immigration loopholes that had allowed people to move to New Zealand claim residency and put their children through the New Zealand Education System and then leave without necessarily making any contribution to New Zealand. Some of these loopholes have been closed but not all of them.

These two in my opinion are easy enough to work through, the way to do it in my opinion is that we need a law along the lines that if you pay tax you are eligible for the services provided by the government, but if you don't you're not. There are of course problems with this as well, but it is fairer in my opinion than the current system where the foriegners on Work Visas are effectively paying for the share of 'residents' who are only coming for the purpose of education and or health care. This needs to be worked on and something needs to be done.

If anyone knows about the conditions of Work Visas overseas I'd love to know as I am about to head overseas on a series of Work Visas to try and have a working holiday, but I don't know much about the way they really work.