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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000749251-23-000046
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
FILED AS OF DATE:		20230802

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			GARTNER INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000749251
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	SERVICES-MANAGEMENT SERVICES [8741]
		IRS NUMBER:				043099750
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		56 TOP GALLANT RD
		STREET 2:		P O BOX 10212
		CITY:			STAMFORD
		STATE:			CT
		ZIP:			06904-2212
		BUSINESS PHONE:		2039640096

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		56 TOP GALLANT RD
		STREET 2:		P O BOX 10212
		CITY:			STAMFORD
		STATE:			CT
		ZIP:			06904-2212

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	GARTNER GROUP INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19930823
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<title>Document</title></head><body><div id="i58f4d67cda094a7481af9acee32b8cfa_1"></div><div style="background-color:#ffffff"><div style="min-height:111.6pt;width:100%"><div><img alt="image_0a.jpg" src="image_0a.jpg" style="height:23px;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:96px"></div><div style="text-align:right"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:right"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:right"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:right"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:right"><font><br></font></div></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">August 2, 2023</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">VIA EDGAR</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Aamira Chaudhry</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Doug Jones</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Division of Corporation Finance</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Office of Trade &#38; Services</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">100 F. Street, N.E.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Washington, D.C. 20549</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:100.000%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:18.771%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:59.156%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:18.773%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Re&#58; </font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Gartner, Inc.</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2022</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Filed on February 16, 2023</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">File No. 001-14443</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr></table></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Dear Ms. Chaudhry and Mr. Jones&#58; </font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">On behalf of Gartner, Inc. (&#8220;Gartner,&#8221; the &#8220;Company,&#8221; &#8220;we,&#8221; or &#8220;our&#8221;), we are responding to the comment letter, dated July 5, 2023, we received from the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#8220;Staff&#8221;) relating to the above-referenced filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (&#8220;SEC&#8221;). </font></div><div style="text-indent:36pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">To facilitate your review, we have reproduced the text of the Staff&#8217;s comment in italics below, followed by the Company&#8217;s response to each comment.  Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Company&#8217;s Form 10-K.</font></div><div style="text-indent:36pt"><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">FORM 10-K FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2022</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Controls and Procedures </font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Disclosure Controls and Procedures, page 31</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:18pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">1.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:100%;padding-left:9pt">We note the revised disclosure in your response to comment 1 and in the Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2023. However, the conclusion language still refers to only a portion of the definition of disclosure controls and procedures. This gives the appearance your conclusion applies only to this portion and leaves open your conclusion with respect to the remainder of the definition. Your conclusion does not need to recite the full definition as long as it refers to the definition as defined by Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e). Please revise your conclusion as appropriate. If your conclusion is limited to only the portion of the definition stated, please advise.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Gartner Response</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#58;</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="height:108pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="background-color:#ffffff"><div style="min-height:111.6pt;width:100%"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:7pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font></div></div><div style="text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">The Company acknowledges the Staff&#8217;s comment and represents that management&#8217;s conclusions set forth in the Company&#8217;s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 and Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2023 with respect to the Company&#8217;s disclosure controls and procedures were on the basis of the full definition of disclosure controls and procedures in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e).&#160; The Company represents that it will revise its future filings to state management&#8217;s conclusion in regard to the Company&#8217;s disclosure controls and procedures as fully defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e). The Company&#8217;s Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2023, which was filed on August 1, 2023, reflects these revisions, as detailed below&#58;</font></div><div style="text-indent:36pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">We have established disclosure controls and procedures that are designed to ensure that the information we are required to disclose in our reports filed or submitted under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &#8220;Exchange Act&#8221;), is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the SEC, and such information is accumulated and communicated to our executive management team, including our chief executive officer and our chief financial officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.</font></div><div style="text-indent:36pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Management conducted an evaluation, as of June 30, 2023, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures, as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) of the Exchange Act, under the supervision and with the participation of our chief executive officer and chief financial officer. Based upon that evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer have concluded that, as of June 30, 2023, the Company&#8217;s disclosure controls and procedures were effective.</font></div><div style="text-indent:36pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">There have been no changes in the Company&#8217;s internal control over financial reporting during the period covered by this report that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company&#8217;s internal control over financial reporting.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements </font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Note 12 - Income Taxes, page 66</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:18pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">2.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:100%;padding-left:9pt">Refer to your response to comment 2. You say the $122.9 million deferred tax asset for the tax basis in intangible assets is recorded in the line titled &#34;Intangible Assets&#34; in the applicable table. Please reconcile this amount with the $35.8 million amount presented in that line for 2022. If the deferred tax asset and offsetting valuation allowance were netted in this line, please present each component separately in the table as appropriate. Refer to ASC 740-10-50-6. In connection with this, if these two amounts also were netted in the statutory tax rate reconciliation table, there does not appear to be a basis to do this in this table pursuant to Rule 4-08(h)(2) of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, present each component separately in this table as appropriate.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Gartner Response&#58;</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">The Company acknowledges the Staff&#8217;s comment and respectfully advises the Staff that the $122.9 million deferred tax asset (&#8220;DTA&#8221;) was not netted with the related valuation allowance in the table of long-term deferred tax assets and liabilities in the Company&#8217;s Form 10-</font></div><div style="height:108pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="background-color:#ffffff"><div style="min-height:111.6pt;width:100%"><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:7pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font></div></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">K for the year ended December 31, 2022. The $35.8 million DTA presented in the line titled &#8220;Intangible Assets&#8221; represents the net amount of deferred tax assets and liabilities related to all the Company&#8217;s intangible assets but does not include an offsetting valuation allowance. Below are the components of the gross amounts as presented.</font></div><div style="text-indent:36pt"><font><br></font></div><div><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:100.000%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:70.944%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:12.158%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:2.675%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:10.723%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#cceeff;padding:2px 1pt 2px 3.77pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">(in millions)</font></td><td colspan="9" style="background-color:#cceeff;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">December 31,</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">2022</font></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">2021</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#cceeff;padding:2px 1pt 2px 3.77pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Net deferred tax liability related to all other intangible assets</font></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#cceeff;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 3.77pt 2px 1pt;text-align:right;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">$ (87.1)</font></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#cceeff;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#cceeff;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 3.77pt 2px 1pt;text-align:right;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">$ (123.5)</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:2px 1pt 2px 3.77pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">DTA for the intangible asset established in 2022</font></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:2px 3.77pt 2px 1pt;text-align:right;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">122.9</font></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:0 1pt"><div style="padding-left:38.75pt;padding-right:2.75pt;text-align:right;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">-</font></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#cceeff;padding:2px 1pt 2px 3.77pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Net deferred tax asset (liability) related to intangible assets</font></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#cceeff;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 3.77pt 2px 1pt;text-align:right;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">$    35.8</font></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#cceeff;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#cceeff;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 3.77pt 2px 1pt;text-align:right;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">$ (123.5)</font></td></tr><tr style="height:15pt"><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#cceeff;padding:2px 1pt 2px 3.77pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Valuation allowance related to all other DTAs</font></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#cceeff;padding:2px 3.77pt 2px 1pt;text-align:right;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">$ (29.9)</font></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#cceeff;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#cceeff;padding:2px 3.77pt 2px 1pt;text-align:right;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">$ (23.3)</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" 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3.77pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Total valuation allowance</font></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#cceeff;border-bottom:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 3.77pt 2px 1pt;text-align:right;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">$(152.8)</font></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#cceeff;padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#cceeff;border-bottom:0.5pt solid #000000;border-top:0.5pt solid #000000;padding:2px 3.77pt 2px 1pt;text-align:right;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">$ (23.3)</font></td></tr></table></div><div style="text-indent:36pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:8pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;In its statutory tax rate reconciliation table, Gartner did not separately identify the impact of establishing the DTA in the current year or the expense of establishing the related valuation allowance in the current year. The Company concluded that the rate reconciliation as provided, taken in conjunction with valuation allowance presented gross in the table of long-term deferred tax assets and liabilities, together with disclosure that a DTA of $122.9 million with a fully offsetting valuation allowance was recorded, provides adequate disclosure. The Company concluded that there is a reasonable basis for this presentation and also believes that a change in presentation of the tax rate reconciliation for this one-time item would not be material to the consolidated financial statements taken as a whole.  </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Accounting Standards Codification (&#8220;ASC&#8221;) 740-10-45-20 states that income tax expense from continuing operations &#8220;shall include the effect of a change in the beginning-of-the-year balance of a valuation allowance that results from a change in circumstances that causes a change in judgment about the realizability of the related deferred tax asset in future years&#8221;.  Establishing an initial DTA with a full valuation allowance does not represent a change in judgment on a beginning of the year balance. 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