Date Expression in SSRS

I have a query in MS SQL database which i want to create a report with that but the report should use a date chosen by the user. Now my problem is when the user chooses today's date, I want the query to select yesterday date and match it with date from the
query and display the result.
I want these date form like, if user chooses today, I need
Yesterday date,
two days ago date,
one month ago date,
two months ago date,
one year ago date, and
two years ago date
all from the single selection of today's date

you can do it via SSRS expression or using t-sql
in t-sql you can do it like this
DECLARE @dt datetime
SET @dt = GETDATE() -- your passed date
SELECT DATEADD(dd,DATEDIFF(dd,0,GETDATE()),-1) AS YesterdayDate,
DATEADD(dd,DATEDIFF(dd,0,GETDATE()),-2) AS TwoDayAgoDate,
DATEADD(mm,DATEDIFF(mm,0,GETDATE())-1,DAY(GETDATE())-1) AS OneMonthAgoDate,
DATEADD(mm,DATEDIFF(mm,0,GETDATE())-2,DAY(GETDATE())-1) AS TwoMonthAgoDate,
DATEADD(mm,DATEDIFF(mm,0,GETDATE())-12,DAY(GETDATE())-1) AS OneYrAgoDate,
DATEADD(mm,DATEDIFF(mm,0,GETDATE())-24,DAY(GETDATE())-1) AS TwoYrAgoDate
In SSRS you can use expression like below
Yesterdays date
=DateSerial(Year(Parameters!DateParam.Value),Month(Parameters!DateParam.Value),Day(Parameters!DateParam.Value)-1)
two days ago
=DateSerial(Year(Parameters!DateParam.Value),Month(Parameters!DateParam.Value),Day(Parameters!DateParam.Value)-2)
One month ago
=DateSerial(Year(Parameters!DateParam.Value),Month(Parameters!DateParam.Value)-1,Day(Parameters!DateParam.Value))
two month ago
=DateSerial(Year(Parameters!DateParam.Value),Month(Parameters!DateParam.Value)-2,Day(Parameters!DateParam.Value))
one year ago
=DateSerial(Year(Parameters!DateParam.Value)-1,Month(Parameters!DateParam.Value),Day(Parameters!DateParam.Value))
two year ago
=DateSerial(Year(Parameters!DateParam.Value)-2,Month(Parameters!DateParam.Value),Day(Parameters!DateParam.Value))
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