Zoom: FREE Online Seminar - BRASS TAXES: Tax Help for Freelancers and Artists with Brass Taxes

Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 3pm ET / 12pm PT

Price: Free

Brass Taxes helps creatives & freelancers with their taxes, but we're really about creating an honest, comfortable atmosphere for each person to actually get their questions answered.

Taxes can be weird & painful. Brass Taxes focuses on communication, transparency, and education to help make this stuff less stressful and annoying.

Topics to be discussed include:

  • How to make tax time suck less! (If that's too much) How to make tax time not quite so terrible and confusing!
  • We will go over how to track expenses and judge what's a legitimate business expense. Also how to estimate what you'll owe at tax time, whether to pay estimated taxes, and how a w-2 job interacts with any 1099 money.
  • We can also discuss when it may make sense to incorporate if you are moving to mostly w-2 work. We will give everyone a short take away about how to keep expenses categorized during the year and how to estimate what you'll owe on your untaxed income come tax time.

Follow this link to read more about their team.
 

WHAT TO PREPARE: 

No need to prepare any materials for this event.


Please follow the procedures listed below:

  • Please update your headshot and fill out the MY INFO section of your AC account upon registration.

  • Instructions and the ZOOM link for access to this online event will be emailed to you in advance. If you have not received the link by one hour before the event, please reach out to registration@actorsconnection.com.

Additional Information:

Our online office hours are 9am-6pm Monday-Friday

If you have an emergency for a class you are participating in outside of these hours, please email help@actorsconnection.com and your host will be able to respond.

**No recording of any kind is permitted by participants during class.**

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**Please keep in mind that all programs at Actors Connection are for educational and professional development purposes. Participating in any class or event is not a promise of employment.**

Theresa Desautels

Theresa is a Seattle-based documentary filmmaker, death doula, and tax advisor.

She worked in the film industry for a decade before recognizing she had no idea how to correctly do her taxes! Theresa found Brass Taxes just in time and was a client for years before realizing that helping freelancers with their taxes is oddly satisfying work. When she's not doing taxes or working on films, she’s talking to folks about death while remembering to celebrate life by dancing, hiking, and speculating about the solar system.

The following disclaimer is provided specifically at the request of and in accordance with SAG/AFTRA: Seminars or classes are for educational purposes only and will not secure or provide opportunity for employment in the field or representation by an agent or casting director.