[Seattle, WA] Closing settlement charged prepaid property tax through the end of the year, but property tax is paid in April and October in my county.

Wanted to sanity-check before I went making a pain of myself at the closing company's office.

In Seattle (King County), property taxes are due April 30th and October 31st: https://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/finance-business-operations/treasury/property-tax.aspx

I get that when closing on a house, you don't close on one of those two dates, so you are responsible for paying the seller back for the part of the tax between the closing date and the tax-due date.

We closed on 10/4/2019, so the sellers had already paid tax through 10/31, but on my closing documents we paid property tax of $2,759.33 through the end of the year, 12/31. (Tax per half is about $5,500.) Shouldn't I have only paid the portion from 10/4 to 10/31, or about $880? (After we closed, I paid another $5,500 directly to the county for the October-April cycle.)

Charge listed on my closing documents: https://i.imgur.com/ZBXkLg9.png

Thanks for looking!

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