While you can file for free above $62,000 (you have to use the fillable forms, and not the tax prep software), the reason I think the reason for the divide is ultimately that the sub-$62k annual income segment isn&#x27;t of particular interest to the tax prep (software&#x2F;services) industry, so providing free tax prep software to them doesn&#x27;t hit the kind of political pushback that a generally-available solution would.