Chances are you've already spent the bonus you've been expecting — in your imagination, anyway. It's not hard for most people to come up with ways to spend a lump of money
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But the first thing to consider, says Marc Lamontagne, a cerified financial planner with Ryan Lamontagne Inc. in Ottawa, is that the lump sum you're anticipating is probably not what it seems, because you haven't paid tax on it yet.
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