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Income Tax Expense (Benefit) (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Mar. 29, 2019
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 includes the discrete effects of the finalization of the accounting for the tax effects of the enactment of the 2017 Act as discussed above:
| Three Months Ended |  | Nine Months Ended
| March 29, 2019 |  | March 30, 2018 |  | March 29, 2019 |  | March 30, 2018
| (in millions)
Income (loss) before taxes | $ | (477 | ) |  | $ | (128 | ) |  | $ | 187 |  |  | $ | 1,356 |
Income tax expense (benefit) | $ | 104 |  |  | $ | (189 | ) |  | $ | 744 |  |  | $ | 1,437 |
Effective tax rate | (22 | )% |  | 148 | % |  | 398 | % |  | 106 | %

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