When dealing with timezones you're no longer querying just for a year, you have to consider the offset of the timezone and then query based on a datetime value.
I whipped up a laravel playground example to get you started: https://laravelplayground.com/#/snippets/47cf3775-877a-4a9e-92e5-f33f96442a26
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