I recently spent a good few weeks trying to renew my car licence online. It would be easy, they said. It was less cumbersome than wasting a Saturday morning in person, they said. Enjoy a lie-in and sort the rest out during work hours, they said.

They were wrong. Phone calls, emails, traffic fines – all were part and parcel of the process. Bureaucracy and red tape are just part our daily lives but that doesn’t mean we have to enjoy them, and when it comes to things that tend to scare our pants off filing our tax returns is usually right up there.

So what if we told you you’re getting in a tizz over nothing, that if you know the right people the whole process can be a painless one? Heck, you might even share a laugh at the expense of those who still gnaw their nails in the build-up to tax season. You might be sceptical, it’s in our nature, but then you haven’t met EpicTax. This group of highly-qualified tax practitioners and their app (take a look HERE) have made the whole process as simple as ordering a pizza over the phone.

That pay using debit or credit card bit? Simple, and you’re not going to find a better or easier to understand payment scale than this. Rake in less than R350 000 per annum and it’s R235 you’re forking over; between R350 000 and R500 000 and it’s R345, and for you big swingers netting over half a million rand it’s a flat fee of R455.

In addition to that the EpicTax app has a number of features aimed at making the process a slick operation. There’s a simple tax calculator, a chat function where you can receive advice from tax practitioners in real time, news related to tax laws and changes and all the tax registration info you need to know.

So where does that leave you? Maybe in the line on a Saturday morning at the Vehicle Registration office, we can’t help much there, but at least you can rest easy in the knowledge that EpicTax and their app can make your tax hassles a thing of the past.