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Any time you have paper work that you must do for some reason that is "red tape." The term comes from the 1500's when important papers were sealed with sealing wax and bound with red tape to show that they hadn't been tampered with or looked at. If the red tape and sealing wax was broken the person who got the papers knew that they had been seen, changed, or used in some way.

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