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Sally Herigstad, an authority on all things finance and taxation, is the author of Help! I Can’t Pay My Bills: Surviving a Financial Crisis. As a certified public account, a member of AICPA and a tax software developer, Herigstad has spent decades guiding business owners and others through complex tax laws, debt resolution, financial planning and more.
Over the course of her career, Herigstad has served as a subject matter expert for Microsoft’s TaxSaver, MSN Money and Microsft Money, and contributed insights and teachings through LendingTree, The Motley Fool, Bankrate, U.S. News & World Report, CreditCards.com, TaxAct and Realtor.com. For CreditCards.com, she spent 10 years helming the “To Her Credit” column, in which she answered reader questions on an assortment of financial matters.
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