[Chickensoup]

I always thought you could contribute what you wanted, but the tax decuction is on only the tax permitted amount

[Maurice Tift]

  I always thought you could contribute what you wanted, but the tax decuction is on only the tax permitted amount

  Yes - I'm sure that's correct. $2000 would have to be the max tax free contribution per year. A few words may have been accidentally left out of the article by the writer...