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Income Tax Expense (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Dec. 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, which reflect provisional amounts related to the mandatory deemed repatriation tax and re-measurement of deferred tax assets and liabilities pursuant to the 2017 Act as discussed above:
| Three Months Ended |  | Six Months Ended
| December 29, 2017 |  | December 30, 2016 |  | December 29, 2017 |  | December 30, 2016
| (in millions)
Income before taxes | $ | 774 |  |  | $ | 321 |  |  | $ | 1,484 |  |  | $ | 50 |
Income tax expense | $ | 1,597 |  |  | $ | 86 |  |  | $ | 1,626 |  |  | $ | 181 |
Effective tax rate | 206 | % |  | 27 | % |  | 110 | % |  | 362 | %

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