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Income Tax Expense (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Sep. 29, 2017
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract] |
Income Tax Expense (Benefit) and Effective Tax Rate | The following table presents the Company’s income tax expense and the effective tax rate:
| Three Months Ended
| September 29, 2017 |  | September 30, 2016
| (in millions)
Income (loss) before taxes | $ | 710 |  |  | $ | (271 | )
Income tax expense | $ | 29 |  |  | $ | 95 |
Effective tax rate | 4 | % |  | (35 | )%

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