Meet 13-Year-Old CEO Of One Of Britain’s Fastest Growing Businesses

A schoolboy, Harvey Millington, has set up one of Britain’s fastest growing businesses – selling reminder tax discs to jog forgetful driver’s memories. Harvey, 13, can receive up to 400 orders a day for paper discs, which remind motorists to renew their tax or MOT.

Harvey’s business, Tax Disc Reminder, has been such a hit after just eight weeks of trading that he has raked in a whopping £3,000 from selling the paper reminders at £4 a pop.

Year eight student Harvey, from Taunton, Somerset, said: “I’m alright with it. The money is nice. I haven’t got any plans for it yet though. I’ve had quite a few teachers asking me about it but my friends don’t really know too much. Sometimes I am working quite hard. I’m probably the richest person in my class. I’m hoping to carry on for a while.”

Harvey came up with the idea after noticing his dad’s car no longer had a tax disc in the window last October.

He asked how people remembered to pay the bill when it went out of date, and what happened if they missed the deadline, leading to the schoolboy having a brainwave.

Research soon revealed that in March alone, 6,000 people all missed the deadline to renew their tax, were clamped at had to pay between £500 and £800.

That huge figure involves a fine, release fee, back-tax, and possible the added hit of having to fork out for a new MOT.

So impressed with his stroke of genius, dad Howard Millington fronted the business £2,000 to set up, paying for the website, cutting device, eight different disc designs, and several pieces of advertising which will be put up locally.

Howard also helped register the business as a limited company because of Harvey’s age, but apart from that, it has all been done by the little man.

Motorists just hop online and enter their details, such as address and registration, before Harvey looks up all the dates.

He then sends them one of the eight different design tax discs, including the popular Welsh dragon and Batman symbol, which drivers can shove in their windscreen if they wish.

The proud 46-year-old dad, who also runs his own business, said: “He’s only a 13-year-old. He doesn’t go to the best school but he is really switched on. I think he has got quite a few girlfriends right now. I do drive him hard. I don’t give him nothing for nothing. You have to work. That’s my philosophy and he has to follow it. He likes computers and computers science so he is having a great time at the moment.”

The company is getting orders at such a staggering rate that they have even discussed the idea of making it fully automatic, with orders made online, a computer printing the disc and sending it.

However, it would cost nearly £30,000 to make that a possibility, so Harvey is beginning to save.

Source: Mirror