Yorktown Assemblyman Katz Had IRS, State Tax Liens

Public records show that Yorktown Republican Steve Katz, a freshman assemblyman with Tea Party support who ran on a platform of reducing taxes and spending, has a history with IRS and state tax liens.

According to The Journal News, Katz was hit with a federal tax lien in 1992 for $54,198 in unpaid income taxes, interest and penalties from 1985, 1986 and 1987. State regulators tagged him with a tax warrant in 1999 for $2,633.

Both the federal and state actions were later lifted after the debt was satisfied, according to the records. 

Katz, who to Sen. Greg Ball (R,C-Patterson), said the tax issues amounted to nothing more than a mistake on the government’s part.

In a recent anonymous robocall, which Katz attributes to his former mentor and political ally, two arrests stories also surfaced: 

Katz, a veterinarian, said that he was trying to transport a client’s deceased German shepherd and had to momentarily set it on the outdoor trash container, resulting in a charge of “scattering rubbish” in July 1992.

Katz was arrested in 1997 when a “vicious Chihuahua” he was treating at his veterinary practice in the Bronx had latched onto his hand and was accidentally knocked off the examination table.

In both cases, charges were dismissed.