Status Quo Tax Framework

Creator: Alexander Dinola Date of first use / creation: October, 2025 Description: Status Quo Tax Framework is the commercial burden of leaving the existing arrangement in place. It consists of four categories: Current Leakage (money, time, capacity or quality already being lost), Delay Cost (what continues or compounds while the decision is postponed), Exposure Cost (downside that becomes more likely or more damaging over time), and Opportunity Cost (what the organization cannot pursue while resources remain tied to compensation work). The concept deliberately separates the familiar, distributed costs the organization has already absorbed from the concentrated, visible costs of change, and accounts for the Familiar Discount that organizations apply to known problems. Supporting content: A tolerated problem is not automatically a buying problem. The Status Quo Tax Builder converts distributed operating friction into an inspectable commercial case while keeping known data, directional estimates, ranges, confidence levels and named owners visibly separate. The purpose is not to make delay sound reckless; it is to stop treating delay as free.