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Income Tax Expense (Benefit) (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Mar. 30, 2018
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 |  | Nine Months Ended
| March 30, 2018 |  | March 31, 2017 |  | March 30, 2018 |  | March 31, 2017
| (in millions)
Income (loss) before taxes | $ | (128 | ) |  | $ | 304 |  |  | $ | 1,356 |  |  | $ | 354 |
Income tax expense (benefit) | $ | (189 | ) |  | $ | 56 |  |  | $ | 1,437 |  |  | $ | 237 |
Effective tax rate | 148 | % |  | 18 | % |  | 106 | % |  | 67 | %

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